— The distribution of broadcast TV across large provider networks has become a highly topical subject as satellite distribution capacity exhausts and competitive pressures increa...
Meeyoung Cha, Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse, Zihui...
We address the programmatic realization of the access control model of security in distributed systems. Our aim is e the gap between abstract/declarative policies and their concre...
Andrew Cirillo, Radha Jagadeesan, Corin Pitcher, J...
We present an efficient optimization scheme for gate sizing in the presence of process variations. Our method is a worst-case design scheme, but it reduces the pessimism involved i...
Jaskirat Singh, Zhi-Quan Luo, Sachin S. Sapatnekar
Abstract. The paper describes an evolutionary algorithm for the general nonlinear programming problem using a surrogate model. Surrogate models are used in optimization when model ...
We model social choice problems in which self interested agents with private utility functions have to agree on values for a set of variables subject to side constraints. The goal...