Local search is a powerful and well-established method for solving hard combinatorial problems. Yet, until recently, it has provided very little user support, leading to time-consu...
A Shinro puzzle is a type of deductive reasoning puzzle that originated in Japanese periodicals. To solve the puzzle, one must locate twelve hidden stones on an 8x8 grid using only...
Abstract-- We have continued development of Optically Reconfigurable Gate Arrays (ORGAs) to realize larger virtual gate count VLSIs than currently available VLSIs. The grain and st...
Abstract. Ghost variables are assignable variables that appear in program annotations but do not correspond to physical entities. They are used to facilitate specification and ver...
Cooperation logics have recently begun to attract attention within the multi-agent systems community. Using a cooperation logic, it is possible to represent and reason about the s...