A case for visualization-integrated system-level design space exploration

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3553, Issue , 2005, Pages 455-464

  Pimentel, Andy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

ARCHITECTURE SIMULATIONS; DATA VISUALIZATION; SYSTEM-LEVEL COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 26444454867     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11512622_48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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