A tool for generating partition schedules of multiprocessor systems

A deterministic cycle scheduling of partitions at the operating system level is supposed for a multiprocessor system. In this paper, we propose a tool for generating such schedules. We use constraint based programming and develop methods and concepts for a combined interactive and automatic partition scheduling system. This paper is also devoted to basic methods and techniques for modeling and solving this partition scheduling problem. Initial application of our partition scheduling tool has proved successful and demonstrated the suitability of the methods used

Universal Location Referencing: A new Approach for dynamic Location Referencing in TPEG: Progress Report, TPEG-LOC2 Study. Fraunhofer FIRST, January 13, 2012

TPEG (Transport Protocol Experts Group) is a protocol specification for the exchange of RTTI (Real Time Traffic Information) to provide road users with comprehensive, up-to-date traffic and traveller information across multiple transport modes, thus allowing door-to-door support. TPEG has the aim to describe real-world events and situational data with their spatio-temporal scope, i.e. the geographical location and time or time period they are associated with. This document concentrates on the location referencing technique named TPEG-ULR (Universal Location Referencing), based on an open and royalty-free method. It includes capabilities to support human interface focused applications as well as the machine interpreted handling. Special algorithms enhance the degree of probability of location matches on map-based devices in terms of accuracy in the case of deviating map variants on producer and consumer side

Victims and consensual proceedings – do victims have a right to tell their stories in criminal proceedings?

This paper addresses whether there is a cross-border opinio iuris that victims have a right to tell their stories in criminal proceedings. Over the last few decades, the rights of victims have been strengthened in criminal proceedings. But there is only little discussion as to whether they have a right to tell their stories even in consensual proceedings, which aim to accelerate criminal proceedings and therefore place some restrictions on the rights of the parties - and not only the rights of the accused, but also the rights of the victims if they are regarded as a party to such proceedings at all. Therefore, the relevant legal frameworks of Switzerland, Germany, the United States of America and that of the International Criminal Court will be presented. Moreover, the issue of which rights are granted to the victims in these proceedings will be explored and if a general consensus on the rights of victims in such proceedings can be reached

PowerMANNA. A parallel architecture based on the PowerPC MPC620

The paper presents PowerMANNA - a distributed-memory parallel computer system based on the 64- bit PowerPC processor MPC620. The PowerMANNA node architecture supports all the sophisticated features of the MPC620 and incorporates important architectural concepts that allow us to exploit the performance of modern superscalar microprocessors in the context of massively parallel supercomputing. The two-way processor nodes of PowerMANNA are embedded in a powerful communication system supporting low-latency communication and maximum connectivity. Processing and communication performance of an eight-node prototype are shown and compared with shared-memory machines and clusters. In the course of the presentation, experience obtained with the PowerPC MPC620 processor is discussed