Hardware implementation of decimal floating-point arithmetic is a topic of great interest among the researchers in computer arithmetic and also the digital processor industry. Software packages for decimal arithmetic are actually being challenged by decimal hardware units.

Electron tomography (ET) is an important technique in biosciences that is providing new insights into the cellular ultrastructure. Iterative reconstruction methods have been shown to be robust against the noise and limited-tilt range conditions present in ET. Nevertheless, these methods are not extensively used due to their computational demands.

Data management for stateful web applications is extremely challenging. Applications must scale as they grow in popularity, serve their content with low-latency on a global scale, and have high availability, even in the face of hardware failures. This need has given rise in recent years to a new class of internet-scale data management systems

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The source-location privacy problem in Wireless Sensor Networks has been traditionally tackled by the creation of random routes for every packet transmitted from the source nodes to the base station. These schemes provide a considerable protection level at a high cost in terms of message delivery time and energy consumption. This overhead is due to the fact that the data routing process is done in a blind way, without knowledge about the location of the attacker

Ants are generally believed to follow an intensive work routine.