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ICCD
2001
IEEE
103views Hardware» more  ICCD 2001»
14 years 4 months ago
Fixed-outline Floorplanning through Better Local Search
Classical floorplanning minimizes a linear combination of area and wirelength. When Simulated Annealing is used, e.g., with the Sequence Pair representation, the typical choice o...
Saurabh N. Adya, Igor L. Markov
ANOR
2004
122views more  ANOR 2004»
13 years 7 months ago
Call Center Staffing with Simulation and Cutting Plane Methods
We present an iterative cutting plane method for minimizing staffing costs in a service system subject to satisfying acceptable service level requirements over multiple time perio...
Júlíus Atlason, Marina A. Epelman, S...
IROS
2008
IEEE
119views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
A relative information metric for vehicle following systems
— Vehicle following can be achieved by minimizing the relative information (Kullback-Leibler or K-L distance), between the estimated poses of leader and follower vehicles by form...
Teck Chew Ng, Martin David Adams, Javier Ibanez Gu...
FAST
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Smoke and Mirrors: Reflecting Files at a Geographically Remote Location Without Loss of Performance
The Smoke and Mirrors File System (SMFS) mirrors files at geographically remote datacenter locations with negligible impact on file system performance at the primary site, and min...
Hakim Weatherspoon, Lakshmi Ganesh, Tudor Marian, ...
ICCAD
2001
IEEE
111views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2001»
14 years 4 months ago
Congestion Aware Layout Driven Logic Synthesis
In this paper, we present novel algorithms that effectively combine physical layout and early logic synthesis to improve overall design quality. In addition, we employ partitionin...
Thomas Kutzschebauch, Leon Stok