The potential for physical flora collections to support scientific research is being enhanced by rapid development of digital databases that represent characteristics of the physic...
Tom Auer, Alan M. MacEachren, Craig McCabe, Scott ...
This paper considers a general setting for structured procurement and the problem a buyer faces in designing a procurement mechanism to maximize profit. This brings together two a...
Matthew Cary, Abraham D. Flaxman, Jason D. Hartlin...
Embedded Systems are components integrating software and hardware jointly and specifically designed to provide given functionalities. These components may be used in many different...
In this paper we present a simple and general new No Free Lunch-like result that applies to revisiting algorithms searching arbitrary problem sets. We begin by unifying the assumpt...
Chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) and other manufacturing steps in very deep submicron VLSI have varying effects on device and interconnect features, depending on local character...
Yu Chen, Andrew B. Kahng, Gabriel Robins, Alexande...