Resource-Aware Harris Corner Detection Based on Adaptive Pruning -- Victim Selection Policies for Intel TBB: Overheads and Energy Footprint -- Non-preemptive Scheduling of Real-Time Software Transactional Memory -- Trust-Enhanced Self-configuration for Organic Computing Systems -- Estimation of Reward and Decision Making for Trust-Adaptive Agents in Normative Environments -- An Adaptive Personal Learning Environment Architecture -- Middleware for Dynamically Adaptive Systems -- Mahler: Sketch-Based Model-Driven Virtual Prototyping -- Formal Architecture Specification for Time Analysis -- Hardware APIs: A Software-Centric Approach for Automated Derivation of MPSoC Hardware Structures Based on Static Code Analysis -- uBuild: Automated Testing and Performance Evaluation of Embedded Linux Systems -- A Two-Tier Design Space Exploration Algorithm to Construct a GPU Performance Predictor -- A Sensor Network Architecture for Urban Traffic State Estimation with Mixed Eulerian/Lagrangian Sensing Based on Distributed Computing -- From Smart Clothing to Smart Table Cloth: Design and Implementation of a Large Scale, Textile Pressure Matrix Sensor -- Performance Isolation Exposure in Virtualized Platforms with PCI Passthrough I/O Sharing -- 3D DRAM and PCMs in Processor Memory Hierarchy -- A Service-Oriented Architecture for Virtualizing Robots in Robot-as-a-Service Clouds -- Towards Code Safety with High Performance -- Detecting Compromised Programs for Embedded System Applications -- Independent Kernel/Process Checkpointing on Non-Volatile Main Memory for Quick Kernel Rejuvenation.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2014, held in L�ubeck, Germany, in February 2014. The 20 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: parallelization: applications and methods; self-organization and trust; system design; system design and sensor systems; and virtualization: I/O, memory, cloud; dependability: safety, security, and reliability aspects.