Wim Heirman

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
66 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Wim Heirman is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wim Heirman has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 48 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wim Heirman's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (54 papers), Interconnection Networks and Systems (26 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (21 papers). Wim Heirman is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (54 papers), Interconnection Networks and Systems (26 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (21 papers). Wim Heirman collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and United Kingdom. Wim Heirman's co-authors include Lieven Eeckhout, Trevor E. Carlson, Ibrahim Hur, Stijn Eyerman, Dirk Stroobandt, Jan Van Campenhout, Kenzo Van Craeynest, Joni Dambre, Hugo Thienpont and Christof Debaes and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and IEEE Micro.

In The Last Decade

Wim Heirman

62 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Sniper 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2014 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Sniper
    2011 610 citations Trevor E. Carlson, Wim Heirman et al. profile →
  2. An Evaluation of High-Level Mechanistic Core Models
    2014 226 citations Trevor E. Carlson, Wim Heirman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wim Heirman Belgium 15 1.2k 958 541 175 103 66 1.4k
Nuwan Jayasena United States 18 1.2k 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 417 0.8× 238 1.4× 127 1.2× 33 1.5k
Trevor E. Carlson Singapore 16 1.2k 1.1× 1.0k 1.0× 546 1.0× 199 1.1× 150 1.5× 75 1.5k
Elliott Cooper-Balis United States 7 801 0.7× 732 0.8× 369 0.7× 150 0.9× 120 1.2× 7 1.0k
Paul Rosenfeld United States 8 870 0.8× 807 0.8× 430 0.8× 159 0.9× 142 1.4× 12 1.2k
Donald Yeung United States 21 1.4k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 392 0.7× 254 1.5× 115 1.1× 72 1.6k
Zeshan Chishti United States 21 1.6k 1.4× 1.3k 1.4× 1.1k 2.0× 203 1.2× 158 1.5× 40 2.1k
Matteo Monchiero Italy 16 936 0.8× 926 1.0× 1.1k 1.9× 138 0.8× 154 1.5× 34 1.8k
Ali Bakhoda Canada 5 1.3k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 355 0.7× 236 1.3× 94 0.9× 9 1.5k
Gordon Brebner United States 13 564 0.5× 945 1.0× 311 0.6× 90 0.5× 123 1.2× 42 1.1k
Balaram Sinharoy United States 12 1.3k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 520 1.0× 143 0.8× 71 0.7× 28 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Wim Heirman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wim Heirman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wim Heirman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wim Heirman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wim Heirman based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Wim Heirman. Wim Heirman is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Patil, Harish, et al.. (2022). LoopPoint: Checkpoint-driven Sampled Simulation for Multi-threaded Applications. 604–618. 9 indexed citations
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Heirman, Wim, et al.. (2021). Scale-Model Simulation. IEEE Computer Architecture Letters. 20(2). 175–178. 2 indexed citations
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Carlson, Trevor E., et al.. (2015). Epoch Profiles: Microarchitecture-Based Application Analysis and Optimization. IEEE Computer Architecture Letters. 14(1). 30–33.
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Heirman, Wim, et al.. (2015). Sniper: Simulation-Based Instruction-Level Statistics for Optimizing Software on Future Architectures. 29–31. 3 indexed citations
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Carlson, Trevor E., Wim Heirman, Harish Patil, & Lieven Eeckhout. (2014). Efficient, accurate and reproducible simulation of multi-threaded workloads. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations
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Sartor, Jennifer B., Wim Heirman, Stephen M. Blackburn, Lieven Eeckhout, & Kathryn S. McKinley. (2014). Cooperative cache scrubbing. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 15–26. 28 indexed citations
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Heirman, Wim, Trevor E. Carlson, Kenzo Van Craeynest, et al.. (2014). Undersubscribed threading on clustered cache architectures. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 678–689. 22 indexed citations
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Heirman, Wim, et al.. (2013). Making Communication a First-Class Citizen in Multicore Partitioning. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 287–293. 1 indexed citations
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Carlson, Trevor E., Wim Heirman, & Lieven Eeckhout. (2013). Sampled simulation of multi-threaded applications. 2–12. 45 indexed citations
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Craeynest, Kenzo Van, et al.. (2013). Starchart: hardware and software optimization using recursive partitioning regression trees. 257–268. 8 indexed citations
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wyffels, Francis, et al.. (2012). A human-friendly way of programming robots. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations
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Heirman, Wim, Trevor E. Carlson, & Lieven Eeckhout. (2012). Sniper: scalable and accurate parallel multi-core simulation. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 91–94. 33 indexed citations
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Heirman, Wim, et al.. (2012). Power-aware multi-core simulation for early design stage hardware/software co-optimization. 3–12. 27 indexed citations
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Heirman, Wim. (2009). Reconfigurable optical interconnection networks for shared-memory multiprocessor architectures. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University).
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Heirman, Wim, et al.. (2009). Strategies for dynamic memory allocation in hybrid architectures. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 217–220.
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Heirman, Wim, Joni Dambre, Christof Debaes, et al.. (2005). Prediction model for evaluation of reconfigurable interconnects in distributed shared-memory systems. 51–58. 6 indexed citations
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Heirman, Wim, Joni Dambre, Jan Van Campenhout, Christof Debaes, & Hugo Thienpont. (2005). Traffic Temporal Analysis for Reconfigurable Interconnects in Shared-Memory Systems. 41. 150a–150a. 9 indexed citations
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Debaes, Christof, et al.. (2004). Architectural study of the opportunities for reconfigurable optical interconnects in distributed shared memory systems. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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