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most citedUsing Meta-heuristics and Machine Learning for Software Optimization of Parallel Computing Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

61 citations · 174 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.DC2023

DECICE: Device-Edge-Cloud Intelligent Collaboration Framework

Julian Kunkel, Christian Boehme, Jonathan Decker +11

DECICE is a Horizon Europe project that is developing an AI-enabled open and portable management framework for automatic and adaptive optimization and deployment of applications in…

cs.LG2022

Data-driven Real-time Short-term Prediction of Air Quality: Comparison of ES, ARIMA, and LSTM

Iryna Talamanova, Sabri Pllana

Air pollution is a worldwide issue that affects the lives of many people in urban areas. It is considered that the air pollution may lead to heart and lung diseases. A careful and…

cs.SE2021

Optimization of Heterogeneous Systems with AI Planning Heuristics and Machine Learning: A Performance and Energy Aware Approach

Suejb Memeti, Sabri Pllana

Heterogeneous computing systems provide high performance and energy efficiency. However, to optimally utilize such systems, solutions that distribute the work across host CPUs and…

cs.OH2019

Customizing Pareto Simulated Annealing for Multi-objective Optimization of Control Cabinet Layout

Sabri Pllana, Suejb Memeti, Joanna Kolodziej

Determining the optimal location of control cabinet components requires the exploration of a large configuration space. For real-world control cabinets it is impractical to evaluat…

cs.DC2019

Performance Modelling of Deep Learning on Intel Many Integrated Core Architectures

Andre Viebke, Sabri Pllana, Suejb Memeti +1

Many complex problems, such as natural language processing or visual object detection, are solved using deep learning. However, efficient training of complex deep convolutional neu…

cs.PL2018★ 12 cited

HSTREAM: A directive-based language extension for heterogeneous stream computing

Suejb Memeti, Sabri Pllana

Big data streaming applications require utilization of heterogeneous parallel computing systems, which may comprise multiple multi-core CPUs and many-core accelerating devices such…

cs.SD2018★ 24 cited

A Machine Learning Driven IoT Solution for Noise Classification in Smart Cities

Yasser Alsouda, Sabri Pllana, Arianit Kurti

We present a machine learning based method for noise classification using a low-power and inexpensive IoT unit. We use Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients for audio feature extract…

cs.DC2018★ 61 cited

Using Meta-heuristics and Machine Learning for Software Optimization of Parallel Computing Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

Suejb Memeti, Sabri Pllana, Alecio Binotto +2

While modern parallel computing systems offer high performance, utilizing these powerful computing resources to the highest possible extent demands advanced knowledge of various ha…

cs.DC2017★ 3 cited

Benchmarking OpenCL, OpenACC, OpenMP, and CUDA: programming productivity, performance, and energy consumption

Suejb Memeti, Lu Li, Sabri Pllana +2

Many modern parallel computing systems are heterogeneous at their node level. Such nodes may comprise general purpose CPUs and accelerators (such as, GPU, or Intel Xeon Phi) that p…

cs.PL2017

Using Cognitive Computing for Learning Parallel Programming: An IBM Watson Solution

Adrian Calvo Chozas, Suejb Memeti, Sabri Pllana

While modern parallel computing systems provide high performance resources, utilizing them to the highest extent requires advanced programming expertise. Programming for parallel c…

cs.DC2017★ 25 cited

CHAOS: A Parallelization Scheme for Training Convolutional Neural Networks on Intel Xeon Phi

Andre Viebke, Suejb Memeti, Sabri Pllana +1

Deep learning is an important component of big-data analytic tools and intelligent applications, such as, self-driving cars, computer vision, speech recognition, or precision medic…

cs.CY2017

Pushing STEM-education through a social-media-based contest format - experiences and lessons-learned from the H2020-project SciChallenge

Florian Huber, Bernhard Jäger, Sabri Pllana +8

Science education is a crucial issue with long-term impacts for Europe as the low enrolment rates in the STEM-fields, including (natural) science, technology, engineering and mathe…

cs.DC2016

Combinatorial Optimization of Work Distribution on Heterogeneous Systems

Suejb Memeti, Sabri Pllana

We describe an approach that uses combinatorial optimization and machine learning to share the work between the host and device of heterogeneous computing systems such that the ove…

cs.CY2016★ 2 cited

The Internet of Things for Aging and Independent Living: A Modeling and Simulation Study

David Perez, Suejb Memeti, Sabri Pllana

Population aging is affecting many countries, Sweden being one of them, and it may lead to a shortage of caregivers for elderly people in near future. Smart interconnected devices…

cs.CY2016★ 1 cited

SciChallenge: Using Student-Generated Content and Contests to Enhance the Interest for Science Education and Careers

Sabri Pllana, Florian Huber, Zdenek Hrdlicka +6

Science education will play a vital role in shaping the present and future of modern societies. Thus, Europe needs all its talents to increase creativity and competitiveness. Young…

cs.DB2016★ 5 cited

A Survey of the State of the Art in Data Mining and Integration Query Languages

Sabri Pllana, Ivan Janciak, Peter Brezany +1

The major aim of this survey is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a representative set of Data-Mining and Integration (DMI) query languages. We describe a set of properti…

cs.DC2015

Analyzing large-scale DNA Sequences on Multi-core Architectures

Suejb Memeti, Sabri Pllana

Rapid analysis of DNA sequences is important in preventing the evolution of different viruses and bacteria during an early phase, early diagnosis of genetic predispositions to cert…

cs.DC2015★ 19 cited

The Potential of the Intel Xeon Phi for Supervised Deep Learning

Andre Viebke, Sabri Pllana

Supervised learning of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), also known as supervised Deep Learning, is a computationally demanding process. To find the most suitable parameters of…

cs.DC2015★ 2 cited

Accelerating DNA Sequence Analysis using Intel Xeon Phi

Suejb Memeti, Sabri Pllana

Genetic information is increasing exponentially, doubling every 18 months. Analyzing this information within a reasonable amount of time requires parallel computing resources. Whil…

cs.DC2015★ 2 cited

Challenges and Recommendations for Preparing HPC Applications for Exascale

Erika Abraham, Costas Bekas, Ivona Brandic +5

While the HPC community is working towards the development of the first Exaflop computer (expected around 2020), after reaching the Petaflop milestone in 2008 still only few HPC ap…

cs.FL2014★ 11 cited

PaREM: A Novel Approach for Parallel Regular Expression Matching

Suejb Memeti, Sabri Pllana

Regular expression matching is essential for many applications, such as finding patterns in text, exploring substrings in large DNA sequences, or lexical analysis. However, sequent…

cs.DC2012★ 7 cited

Efficient Hybrid Execution of C++ Applications using Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) Coprocessor

Jiri Dokulil, Enes Bajrovic, Siegfried Benkner +3

The introduction of Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) coprocessors opened up new possibilities in development of highly parallel applications. The familiarity and flexibility of the architectu…