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DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Automatic package and board decoupling capacitor placement using genetic algorithms and M-FDM
In the design of complex power distribution networks (PDN) with multiple power islands, it is required that the PDN represents a low impedance as seen by the digital modules. This...
Krishna Bharath, Ege Engin, Madhavan Swaminathan
WSC
2004
15 years 3 months ago
Global Likelihood Optimization Via the Cross-Entropy Method, with an Application to Mixture Models
Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge t...
Zdravko I. Botev, Dirk P. Kroese
FOCS
2007
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda
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WIOPT
2010
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Optimizing power allocation in interference channels using D.C. programming
Abstract--Power allocation is a promising approach for optimizing the performance of mobile radio systems in interference channels. In the present paper, the non-convex objective f...
Hussein Al-Shatri, Tobias Weber
BMCBI
2010
191views more  BMCBI 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
Molecular dynamics simulation studies and in vitro site directed mutagenesis of avian beta-defensin Apl_AvBD2
Background: Defensins comprise a group of antimicrobial peptides, widely recognized as important elements of the innate immune system in both animals and plants. Cationicity, rath...
Soja Saghar Soman, Krishnankutty Chandrika Sivakum...