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“Multimodal Transformers for Real-Time Surgical Activity Prediction”
K. Weerasinghe, S. H. Roodabeh, K. Hutchinson, H. Alemzadeh
To appear in the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024. (Acceptance Rate ~ 44.83%)

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“Real-Time Multimodal Cognitive Assistant for Emergency Medical Services”
K. Weerasinghe, S. Janapati, X. Ge, S. Kim, S. Iyer, J. Stankovic, H. Alemzadeh
To appear in the 9th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2024.

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“Robotic Scene Segmentation with Memory Network for Runtime Surgical Context Inference”
Z. Li, I. Reyes, H. Alemzadeh
In the 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023. (Acceptance Rate ~ 43.3%)

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“Evaluating Task Generalization of TCNs for Surgical Gesture and Motion Recognition using Kinematic Data”
K. Hutchinson, I. Reyes, Z. Li, H. Alemzadeh
In the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023. (Impact Factor ~ 4.3). Selected for Presentation at ICRA 2024.

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“COMPASS: A Formal Framework and Aggregate Dataset for Generalized Surgical Procedure Modeling”
K. Hutchinson, I. Reyes, Z. Li, H. Alemzadeh
In the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS), 2023. (Impact Factor ~ 3.4)

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“emsReACT: A Real-Time Interactive Cognitive Assistant for Cardiac Arrest Training in Emergency Medical Services,”
M A. Rahman, L. Jia, E. Mirza, S. M. Preum. H. Alemzadeh, R. D. Williams, J. Stankovic,
In the 19th Annual Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), 2023.

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“Poster Abstract: SenseEMS - Towards A Hand Activity Recognition and Monitoring System for Emergency Medical Services,” [Poster]
M. A. Rahman, K. Weerasinghe, L. Wijayasingha, H. Alemzadeh, R. D. Williams, J. Stankovic,
In the 22nd annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2023.

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“EMS-BERT: A Pre-Trained Language Representation Model for the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Domain”
M. A. Rahman, S. M. Preum, R. D. Williams, H. Alemzadeh, J. Stankovic
In the IEEE/ACM Conf. on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2023. (Acceptance rate ~ 35%)

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“Short: Basal-Adjust: Trend Prediction Alerts and Adjusted Basal Rates for Hyperglycemia Prevention”
C. Smith, M. Kouzel, X. Zhou, H. Alemzadeh
In the IEEE/ACM Conf. on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2023. (Acceptance rate ~ 35%)

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“Towards Surgical Context Inference and Translation to Gestures”
K. Hutchinson, Z. Li, I. Reyes, H. Alemzadeh
In the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023. (Acceptance rate ~ 43.1%)

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“Hybrid Knowledge and Data Driven Synthesis of Runtime Monitors for Cyber-Physical Systems”
X. Zhou, B. Ahmed, J. Aylor, P. Asare, H. Alemzadeh
In the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2023. (Impact Factor ~ 6.8)

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“Towards Developing Safety Assurance Cases for Learning-Enabled Medical Cyber-Physical Systems”
M. Bagheri, J. Lamp, X. Zhou, L. Feng, H. Alemzadeh
In the AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety (SafeAI), 2023.

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“Design and Validation of an Open-Source Closed-Loop Testbed for Artificial Pancreas Systems”
X. Zhou, H. Ren, M. Kouzel, H. Alemzadeh
In the IEEE/ACM Conf. on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2022. (Acceptance rate ~ 43.5%)

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“Robustness Testing of Data and Knowledge Driven Anomaly Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems”
X. Zhou, M. Kouzel, H. Alemzadeh
In the 5th IEEE/IFIP DSN Workshop on Dependable and Secure Machine Learning (DSN-DSML), 2022.

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“Strategic Safety-Critical Attacks against an Advanced Driver Assistance System”
X. Zhou, A. Schmedding, H. Ren, L. Yang, P. Schowitz, E. Smirni, H. Alemzadeh
In the 52nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2022. (Acceptance rate ~ 18.7%)

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“Runtime Detection of Executional Errors in Robot-Assisted Surgery”
Z. Li, K. Hutchinson, H. Alemzadeh
In the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022. (Acceptance rate ~ 43.1%)

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“Analysis of Executional and Procedural Errors in Dry-lab Robotic Surgery Experiments”
K. Hutchinson, Zongyu Li, Leigh A. Cantrell, Noah S. Schenkman, H. Alemzadeh
In the International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (IJMRACS), 2022. (Impact Factor ~ 2.48)

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“Information Extraction from Patient Care Reports for Intelligent Emergency Medical Services”
S. Kim, W. Guo, R. Williams, J. Stankovic, H. Alemzadeh
In the IEEE/ACM Conf. on Connected Health: Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2021. (Best Paper Finalist)

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“Data-driven Design of Context-aware Monitors for Hazard Prediction in Artificial Pancreas Systems”
X. Zhou, B. Ahmed, J. H. Aylor, P. Asare, H. Alemzadeh
In the 51st IEEE/IFIP Int. Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2021. (Acceptance rate ~ 16.3%)

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“On Parallel Real-Time Security Improvement Using Mixed-Integer Programming”
H. MJ Almohri, L. T Watson, H. Alemzadeh, M. Almutawa
In the IEEE Access, vol. 9, 2021. (Impact Factor ~ 3.37)

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“A Review of Cognitive Assistants for Healthcare: Trends, Prospects, and Future Directions”
S. Preum, S. Munir, M. Ma, M. S. Yasar, D. J. Stone, R. Williams, H. Alemzadeh, J. Stankovic
In the ACM Computing Surveys, 2021. (Impact Factor ~ 14.3)

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“Real-Time Context-aware Detection of Unsafe Events in Robot-Assisted Surgery”
M. S. Yasar, H. Alemzadeh
In the 50th IEEE/IFIP Int. Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2020. (Acceptance rate ~ 16.5%)

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“A Reactive Autonomous Camera System for the RAVEN II Surgical Robot”
K. Hutchinson, M. S. Yasar, H. Bhatia, H. Alemzadeh
In the International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), 2020.

 Featured by the UVA Engineering News.

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“EMSContExt: EMS Protocol-driven Concept Extraction for Cognitive Assistance in Emergency Response”
S. M. Preum, S. Shu, H. Alemzadeh, J. Stankovic
In the Thirty-Second Annual Conf. on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-20), 2020. (Acceptance rate ~ 35%)

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“GRACE: Generating Summary Reports Automatically for Cognitive Assistance in Emergency Response”
M A. Rahman, S. M. Preum, R. Williams, H. Alemzadeh, J. Stankovic
In the Thirty-Second Annual Conf. on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-20), 2020. (Acceptance rate ~ 35%)

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“Challenges and Opportunities in Detection of Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Attacks”
H. Lin, H. Alemzadeh, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer
In the IEEE Computer Magazine, 2020.

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“Analysis of Cyber-Security Vulnerabilities of Interconnected Medical Devices” [Poster]
Y. Xu, D. Tran, Y. Tian, H. Alemzadeh
In the IEEE/ACM Conf. on Connected Health: Applications, Systems, and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2019.

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“A Behavior Tree Cognitive Assistant System for Emergency Medical Services”
S. Shu, S. Preum, H. M. Pitchford, R. D. Williams, J. Stankovic, H. Alemzadeh
In the IEEE IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019.

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“Context-aware Monitoring in Robotic Surgery”
M. S. Yasar, D. Evans, H. Alemzadeh
In the International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), 2019.

 Featured by the UVA Cavalier Daily and UVA Today.

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“An Integrative Approach to Embedded Systems Courseware”
H. Powell, T. Delong, H. Alemzadeh
In the ASEE Southeastern Section Annual Conference, 2019.

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“Experimental Resilience Assessment of An Open-Source Driving Agent”
A. H. M. Rubaiyat, Y. Qin, H. Alemzadeh
In the 23rd IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2018), 2018.

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“Model Fusion: Weighted N-Version Programming for Resilient Autonomous Vehicle Steering Control” [Fast Abstract]
A. Wu, A. H. M. Rubaiyat, C. Anton, H. Alemzadeh
In the 29th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2018), 2018.

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“CognitiveEMS: A Cognitive Assistant System for Emergency Medical Services”
S. Preum, S. Shu, M. Hotaki, R. Williams, J. Stankovic, H. Alemzadeh
In SIGBED Review, Special Issue on Medical Cyber Physical Systems Workshop (CPS-Week), 2018.

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“Towards a Cognitive Assistant System for Emergency Response” [Poster]
S. Preum, S. Shu, J. Ting, V. Lin, R. Williams, J. Stankovic, H. Alemzadeh
In the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS-Week), 2018.

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“Surgeon Training in Telerobotic Surgery via a Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulator”
X Li, H. Alemzadeh, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer and T. Kesavadas
Journal of Healthcare Engineering, vol. 2017, Article ID 6702919, 2017.

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“On Threat Modeling and Mitigation of Medical Cyber-Physical Systems”
H. Almohri, L. Cheng, D. Yao, H. Alemzadeh
Proc. Second IEEE International Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Trustworthiness in Medical Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE CHASE
, 2017.

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“An NLP-based Cognitive System for Disease Status Identification in Electronic Health Records”
H. Alemzadeh and M. V. Devarakonda,
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (EMBS BHI), 2017.

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“On the Safety of Machine Learning: Cyber-Physical Systems, Decision Sciences, and Data Products”
Kush R. Varshney and H. Alemzadeh, arXiv:1610.01256, Big Data Journal 5:3, 246–255, 2017.

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“Data-driven Resiliency Assessment of Medical Cyber-Physical Systems”
H. Alemzadeh
PhD Dissertation, 2016.

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“A Hardware-in-the-loop Simulator for Safety Training in Robotic Surgery”
X. Li, H. Alemzadeh, D. Chen, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer, T. Kesavadas
Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016.

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“Targeted Attacks on Teleoperated Surgical Robots: Dynamic Model-based Detection and Mitigation”
H. Alemzadeh, D. Chen, X. Li, T. Kesavadas, Z. T. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer,
Proc. 46th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2016

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“Safety-critical Cyber-physical Attacks: Analysis, Detection, and Mitigation”
H. Lin, H. Alemzadeh, D. Chen, Z. T. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer,
Proc. Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HOTSOS), 2016.

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“Adverse Events in Robotic Surgery: A Retrospective Study of 14 Years of FDA Data”
H. Alemzadeh, J. Raman, N. Leveson, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer
PloS one 11.4: e0151470., 2016.

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“Systems-theoretic Safety Assessment of Telerobotic Surgical Systems”
H. Alemzadeh, D. Chen, A. Lewis, Z. Kalbarczyk, J. Raman, N. Leveson, R. K. Iyer
Proc. 34th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security (SAFECOMP), 2015.

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“A Fault-Tolerant Hardware Architecture for Robust Wearable Heart Rate Monitoring”
Q. Li, H. Alemzadeh, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer
Proc. 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health’2015), May 2015.

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“A Software Framework for Simulation of Safety Hazards in Robotic Surgical Systems”
H. Alemzadeh, D. Chen, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer, X. Li, T. Kesavadas, J. Raman
SIGBED Review, vol. 12, no. 4, Special Issue on Medical Cyber Physical Systems Workshop, 2015.

“Illinois researchers making virtual surgery simulation a reality”,
Engineering at Illinois News, Oct. 8, 2015.

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“Simulation-based Training for Safety Incidents: Lessons from Analysis of Adverse Events in Robotic Surgical Systems” [Poster]
H. Alemzadeh, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer, T. Kesavadas, S. Small, J. Raman
Proc. American College of Surgeons' 8th Annual Meeting of the Consortium of ACS-accredited Education Institutes, March 2015

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“Automated Classification of Computer-based Medical Device Recalls” [Poster]
H. Alemzadeh, R. Hoagland, Z. T. Kalbarczyk, and R. K. Iyer
Proc. of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), May 2014.

Demo of Toolset: MedSafe

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“Safety Implications of Robotic Surgery: A Study of 13 Years of FDA Data on da Vinci Surgical Systems”
H. Alemzadeh, J. Raman, N. Leveson, and R. K. Iyer
CSL Technical Report, UILU-ENG-13-2208, Nov. 2013.
Updated Technical Report (arXiv), July 2015.

J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Paper in Adult Cardiac Surgery,
Presented in the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), Jan. 2014

“Report Raises Concerns on Robotic Surgery Device”, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 8, 2013.
“Study questions safety of popular robotic surgical device”, CSL News, April 3, 2014.

“Robotic Surgery Linked To 144 Deaths Since 2000”, MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, BBC, NBCNews, io9, DailyMail, GeekSnack, TechTimes, The Register, Examiner, CommonWealth News, EpochTimes, Fusion, Medical Daily, Hopes and Fears, Robot Globe. July 21, 2015.

My talk at STAMP Conference, MIT, March, 2014.

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“Analysis of Safety-Critical Computer Failures in Medical Devices”
H. Alemzadeh, R. K. Iyer, Z. Kalbarczyk, J. Raman
IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 14-26, Jul-Aug. 2013.

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“Towards Resiliency in Embedded Medical Monitoring Devices”
H. Alemzadeh, C. D. Martino, Z. Jin, Z. T. Kalbarczyk, and R. K. Iyer
Proc. of the Workshop on Open Resilient Human-aware Cyber-Physical Systems (WORCS'12), in conjunction with DSN 2012, Jun. 2012.

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“An Embedded Reconfigurable Architecture for Patient-Specific Multi-Parameter Medical Monitoring”
H. Alemzadeh, Z. Jin, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer
Proc. of 33rd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference (EMBC’11), Sep. 2011.

 Featured by the Media Center of the ECE department, UIUC,
Monitoring devices help to detect signs of impending medical crisis”, Aug. 5, 2013.

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“RMED: A Reconfigurable Architecture for Embedded Medical Monitoring”
H. Alemzadeh, M. U. Saleheen, Z. Jin, Z. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer
Proc. of the Fifth Annual IEEE-NIH Life Science Systems and Application Workshop (LiSSA’11), Apr. 2011.

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“An Efficient Embedded Hardware for High Accuracy Detection of Epileptic Seizures”
M. U. Saleheen, H. Alemzadeh, A. M. Cheriyan, Z. T. Kalbarczyk, R. K. Iyer
Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI'10), 2010.

 Featured in the Biomedical Computation Review,
Smart Embedded Devices: Here They Come”, vol. 8, no. 3 (2012), pp. 4-6,
 Simbios: NIH Center for Biomedical Computation at Stanford University.

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“Facilitating Testability of TLM FIFO: SystemC Implementations”
H. Alemzadeh, M. Cimei, P. Prinetto, Z. Navabi
Proc. of the 6th IEEE EAST-WEST DESIGN & TEST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (EWDTS’08), Oct. 2008.

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“Code Optimization for Enhancing SystemC Simulation Time”
H. Alemzadeh, S. Aminzadeh, R. Saberi, Z. Navabi
Proc. of the 6th IEEE EAST-WEST DESIGN & TEST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (EWDTS’08), Oct. 2008.

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“Functional Testing Approaches for “BIFSTable” tlm_fifo”
H. Alemzadeh, S. Di Carlo, A. Scionti, P. Prinetto, Z. Navabi
Proc. of the IEEE International High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT'08), Nov. 2008.

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“Application Specific Configuration of a Fault-tolerant NoC Architecture”
F. Refan, P. Kabiri, H. Alemzadeh, P. Prinetto, Z. Navabi
Proc. of the 11th Biennial Balitic Electronics Conference (BEC’08), Oct. 2008.

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“Plug&Test at System Level via Testable TLM Primitives”
H. Alemzadeh, S. Di Carlo, F. Refan, Z. Navabi, P. Prinetto,
Proc. of the International Test Conference (ITC’08), Oct. 2008.

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“Reliability in Application Specific Mesh-based NoC Architectures”
F. Refan, H. Alemzadeh, S. Safari, P. Prinetto, Z. Navabi
Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Online Testing Symposium (IOLTS’08), Jul. 2008.

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“High-level Analysis for Reconfiguration of a Fault Tolerant Mesh-based NoC Architecture Using Transaction Level Modeling”
H. Alemzadeh, F. Refan, P. Prinetto and Z. Navabi
Proc. of the 5th IEEE EAST-WEST DESIGN & TEST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (EWDTS’07), Sep. 2007.