Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are spatial architectures with a heterogeneous
reconfigurable fabric. They are state-of-the-art for prototy**, telecommunications …

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has received considerable attention in the past few
years, both from industry and academia, due to its potential for reducing capital and …

Regular Expressions (REs) are a computational kernel widely used for finding patterns in
data in compute-intensive tasks such as genomic markers research, signature-based …

Regular Expression (RE) matching is a computational kernel used in several applications.
Since RE complexity and data volumes are steadily increasing, hardware acceleration is …

Pattern matching algorithms and techniques are extensively deployed in a network intrusion
detection system. A plethora of scalable pattern matching hardware architectures exist with …

The continuous growth of data pushes novel and efficient approaches for information
retrieval. In this context, Regular Expression (RE) matching is widely employed and …

Traditional hardware development exploits description languages such as VHDL and
(System) Verilog to produce highly parametrizable RTL designs. Different parameter values …

With the exponential growth of cyber–physical systems (CPSs), security challenges have
emerged; attacks on critical infrastructure could result in catastrophic consequences …

In Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) systems, many high-
demanding applications are cut off due to the limited computational resources and the …

Black-box functions modeling is crucial in many optimization problems. However, the
number of function evaluations is often limited by time or cost, as in Design Space …