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Multi-objective optimization of multimedia embedded systems using genetic algorithms and stochastic simulation

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To meet the ever shrinking time-to-market for multimedia embedded systems, designers need effective system-level optimization techniques to support their design decisions. Despite multimedia embedded systems’ highly variable execution times and soft real-time constraints, most previous work has adopted a constant execution time (worst-case) approach to evaluate if a candidate architecture satisfies the timing constraints. Such an approach is too pessimistic and might result in unnecessary costly architectures. In this work, we propose a new method for design space exploration of multimedia embedded systems. Given a system specification, the proposed method automatically explores the design space to quickly identify Pareto-optimal solutions (or an approximation) that optimize conflicting design metrics, such as price and power consumption. Our approach combines (i) a fast and formal strategy for performance evaluation that captures the varying runtime behavior of multimedia systems and (ii) a new multi-objective genetic algorithm for architecture exploration. The experiments on well-known benchmarks show the efficiency of our method in comparison to similar ones.

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  1. Academic Unit of Garanhuns, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Garanhuns, Brazil

    Bruno Nogueira

  2. Center of Informatics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

    Paulo Maciel, Eduardo Tavares & Ricardo M. A. Silva

  3. Department of Statistics and Informatics, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

    Ermeson Andrade

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Nogueira, B., Maciel, P., Tavares, E. et al. Multi-objective optimization of multimedia embedded systems using genetic algorithms and stochastic simulation. Soft Comput 21, 4141–4158 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-016-2061-x

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