Architecture Computing Systems ARCS 06

Invited and Keynote Papers.- Life-Inspired Systems and Their Quality-Driven Design.- The Robustness of Resource Allocations in Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems.- Pervasive Computing.- FingerMouse - A Button Size Visual Hand Tracking and Segmentation Device.- An Ad-Hoc Wireless Network Architecture for Face-to-Face Mobile Collaborative Applications.- Background Data Acquisition and Carrying: The BlueDACS Project.- Prototypical Implementation of Location-Aware Services Based on Super-Distributed RFID Tags.- Combined Resource and Context Model for QoS-Aware Mobile Middleware.- Distributed Modular Toolbox for Multi-modal Context Recognition.- Memory Systems.- Dynamic Dictionary-Based Data Compression for Level-1 Caches.- A Case for Dual-Mapping One-Way Caches.- Cache Write-Back Schemes for Embedded Destructive-Read DRAM.- A Processor Architecture with Effective Memory System for Sort-Last Parallel Rendering.- Architectures.- Controller Synthesis for Mapping Partitioned Programs on Array Architectures.- M2E: A Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output Function Extension for RISC-Based Extensible Processors.- An Operating System Infrastructure for Fault-Tolerant Reconfigurable Networks.- Architectural Tradeoffs in Wearable Systems.- Multiprocessing.- Do Trace Cache, Value Prediction and Prefetching Improve SMT Throughput?.- Scalable and Partitionable Asynchronous Arbiter for Micro-threaded Chip Multiprocessors.- GigaNetIC - A Scalable Embedded On-Chip Multiprocessor Architecture for Network Applications.- Energy Efficient Design.- Efficient System-on-Chip Energy Management with a Segmented Bloom Filter.- Estimating Energy Consumption for an MPSoC Architectural Exploration.- An Energy Consumption Model for an Embedded Java Virtual Machine.- Power Awareness.- PASCOM: Power Model for Supercomputers.- Power-Aware Collective Tree Exploration.- Biologically-Inspired Optimization of Circuit Performance and Leakage: A Comparative Study.- Network Protocols.- A Synchronous