WMC students and alumni presented papers at the 44^thInternational Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics, and Microelectronics (MIPRO 2021)

September 30, 2021

Two of our senior WMC students, Dora Beronić and Dino Muharemagić, in collaboration with RIT Croatia alumni Paula Pufek and Matija Šipek and under the mentorship of Dr. Branko Mihaljević and Aleksander Radovan, wrote two research papers and presented them at the 44th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics, and Microelectronics - MIPRO 2021.

The research paper on the topic "On Analyzing Virtual Threads - a Structured Concurrency Model for Scalable Applications on the JVM", authored by Dora Beronić, Paula Pufek, Branko Mihaljević and Aleksander Radovan, presented research results of an experimental structured concurrency model based on Virtual Threads in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) introduced within OpenJDK's Project Loom, exploring the updated implementation of virtual threads and accompanying schedulers, as a novel form of lightweight user-mode threads, demonstrating their efficiency on blocking operations and reviewing possibilities of reducing memory footprints and context switching costs.

The research paper with the title "Next-Generation Web Applications with WebAssembly and TruffleWasm", authored by Matija Šipek, Dino Muharemagić, Branko Mihaljević and Aleksander Radovan, presented research related to WebAssembly, a binary format compilation target that includes a low-level assembly-like language used for targeting from other programming languages, which allows near-native performance level due to its compactness, and TruffleWasm, a WebAssembly interpreter hosted within GraalVM ecosystem and Truffle Java framework, by demonstrating the system architecture and preliminary performance test results within the academic environment.

MIPRO is the largest and the oldest international IT-related scientific conference in Croatia co-sponsored by IEEE, and all papers will be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library and Web of Science CPCI-S.