— This paper presents Natural Evolution Strategies (NES), a novel algorithm for performing real-valued ‘black box’ function optimization: optimizing an unknown objective func...
Computational phylogeny is a challenging application even for the most powerful supercomputers. It is also an ideal candidate for benchmarking emerging multiprocessor architecture...
Filip Blagojevic, Alexandros Stamatakis, Christos ...
This paper presents a new timing driven force directed placement algorithm that meets physical net length constraints as well as constraints on specific pin sets. It is the first ...
Karthik Rajagopal, Tal Shaked, Yegna Parasuram, Tu...
We investigate the effects of precision on the efficiency of various local search algorithms on 1-D unimodal functions. We present a (1 + 1)-EA with adaptive step size which fin...
Martin Dietzfelbinger, Jonathan E. Rowe, Ingo Wege...
Geometric Particle Swarm Optimization (GPSO) is a recently introduced formal generalization of traditional Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) that applies naturally to both continu...