de nationalité suisse et originaire de Zurich (ZH) et Lucerne (LU) acceptée sur proposition du jury:

Loop distribution is an integral part of transforming a sequential program into a parallel one. It is used extensively in parallelization, vectorization, and memory management. For loops with control flow, previous methods for loop distribution have significant drawbacks. We present a new algorithm

are simply the ones with better past performance records: While we do find evidence of persistence in performance from one fund to the next, our measures of network centrality continue to have a positive and significant effect on fund exit rates when we control for persistence. The way we construct

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mediations, imposes its structural determination to relationships of production. More speci cally, global nancial markets and their management networks constitute an automated network, governed by interactions between its multiple nodes, propelled by a combination of market logic, information turbulences

by Utsaw Kumar The presence of inexpensive and powerful sensing and communication devices has made it possible to deploy large scale distributed systems for a variety of applications. Interactions among different components of such a system include communication of information and controlling

dynamically computed shadow stack, incurring high overheads To avoid this, coarse-grained CFI implementations resort to a reduced-degree, static approximation of the control-flow graph, and merge identifiers at the cost of reduced security. Typically, attackers need more than a single 4K page worth of code

ii Internet broadcasting techniques are wide spread and have been the focus off many research projects. Due to high transmission delays these systems often lack interactivity. This thesis introduces a new streaming system to deliver real-time video and audio data with low-delays across the Internet

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First, I would like to thank to Dimka Karastoyanova and Mariano Cilia for all the fruitful discussions, their guidance and support through the course of this project. Thanks also to Prof. Alejandro Buchmann who sponsored my stay at Technische Universität Darmstadt during the spring of 2004. The special thanks go to my advisor, Mariano Cilia, who has made all this possible. Finally, I’d like to thank to my family for all these years of support.