Abstract. VLSI chips design is becoming increasingly complex and calling for more and more automation. Many chip design problems can be formulated naturally as constraint problems ...
Bella Dubrov, Haggai Eran, Ari Freund, Edward F. M...
Local search (LS) algorithms are among the most powerful techniques for solving computationally hard problems in combinatorial optimization. These algorithms could be viewed as &q...
Problem localization is a critical part of providing crucial system management capabilities to modern distributed environments. One key open challenge is for problem localization ...
Rui Zhang, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Alan Bivens, S...
Memetic algorithms are evolutionary algorithms incorporating local search to increase exploitation. This hybridization has been fruitful in countless applications. However, theory...
Optimal fractal coding consists of finding in a finite set of contractive affine mappings one whose unique fixed point is closest to the original image. Optimal fractal coding is ...