Many metaheuristics have difficulty exploring their search space comprehensively. Exploration time and efficiency are highly dependent on the size and the ruggedness of the search...
In this paper, we address the interconnect-driven floorplanning problem that integrates OPC-friendly bus assignment with floorplanning. Buses consist of a number of horizontal/v...
Hua Xiang, Liang Deng, Li-Da Huang, Martin D. F. W...
Diffusion curves are a powerful vector graphic representation that stores an image as a set of 2D Bezier curves with colors defined on either side. These colors are diffused over...
Recently, a form of memory usage was introduced for genetic programming (GP) called “soft memory.” Rather than have a new value completely overwrite the old value in a registe...
— Recent advances in molecular biology have led to a continued growth in the biological information generated by the scientific community. Additionally, this area has become a m...