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TEC
2010
132views more  TEC 2010»
13 years 15 days ago
A Hybrid Evolutionary Approach to the Nurse Rostering Problem
Nurse rostering is a difficult search problem with many constraints. In the literature, a number of approaches have been investigated including penalty function methods to tackle t...
Ruibin Bai, Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall, Jingp...
ICCD
2001
IEEE
103views Hardware» more  ICCD 2001»
14 years 2 months ago
Fixed-outline Floorplanning through Better Local Search
Classical floorplanning minimizes a linear combination of area and wirelength. When Simulated Annealing is used, e.g., with the Sequence Pair representation, the typical choice o...
Saurabh N. Adya, Igor L. Markov
ASPLOS
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A spatial path scheduling algorithm for EDGE architectures
Growing on-chip wire delays are motivating architectural features that expose on-chip communication to the compiler. EDGE architectures are one example of communication-exposed mi...
Katherine E. Coons, Xia Chen, Doug Burger, Kathryn...
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 days ago
The business case for automated software engineering
Adoption of advanced automated SE (ASE) tools would be favored if a business case could be made that these tools are more valuable than alternate methods. In theory, software pred...
Tim Menzies, Oussama El-Rawas, Jairus Hihn, Martin...
VLSID
1998
IEEE
116views VLSI» more  VLSID 1998»
13 years 10 months ago
Synthesis of Testable RTL Designs
With several commercial tools becoming available, the high-level synthesis of applicationspeci c integrated circuits is nding wide spread acceptance in VLSI industry today. Existi...
C. P. Ravikumar, Sumit Gupta, Akshay Jajoo