APPROVED: Saraju P. Mohanty, Major Professor Elias Kougianos, Co-Major Professor Song Fu, Committee Member Paul Tarau, Committee Member Barrett Bryant, Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Costas Tsatsoulis, Dean of the College of Engineering James D. Meernik, Acting Dean of the Toulouse Graduate School METAMODELING-BASED FAST OPTIMIZATION OF NANOSCALE AMS-SOCS Oleg Garitselov Dissertation Prepared for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS May 2012