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GECCO
2004
Springer
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Memetic Optimization of Video Chain Designs
Abstract. Improving image quality is the backbone of highly competitive display industry. Contemporary video processing system design is a challenging optimization problem. General...
Walid Ali, Alexander P. Topchy
HICSS
2003
IEEE
93views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
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IT Businesses and Franchising: A Research Proposal
Franchising has been popular as a growth strategy for small businesses; it is even more so in today’s global and information-based economy. In early 2001, Entrepreneur magazineâ...
Ye-Sho Chen, Chitu Okoli, P. Pete Chong
HICSS
2000
IEEE
118views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2000»
15 years 10 months ago
Analyzing Information Intermediaries in Electronic Brokerage
In the past, full-service stock brokerage firms had a strategic advantage over discount brokers because of the control full-service brokers had over the information provided to th...
Robert J. Kauffman, Mani R. Subramani, Charles A. ...
CP
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing with Constraints: A Case Study in Scheduling Maintenance of Electric Power Units
A well-studied problem in the electric power industry is that of optimally scheduling preventative maintenance of power generating units within a power plant. We show how these pr...
Daniel Frost, Rina Dechter
DAC
1997
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
CELLERITY: A Fully Automatic Layout Synthesis System for Standard Cell Libraries
This paper describes a fully automatic standard-cell layout synthesis system, CELLERITY. The system is flexible in supporting a wide variety of process technologies and a range of...
Mohankumar Guruswamy, Robert L. Maziasz, Daniel Du...