... familiar with computer architecture and organization, oper-ating systems and related services, programming languages, systems and soft-ware engineering, as well as performance analysis and optimization ... intended for junior – senior level and graduate computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering students, as well as practicing software, systems and computer engineers. It can be ... software engineering and computer archi-tecture, Laplante ( 2003 ) and Gilreath and Laplante ( 2003 ), respectively. Where this has been done, it is so noted. www.it-ebooks.infoxviii PREFACE...