The interest in finding an optimal partition in the area of VLSI has been a hot issue in recent years. Circuit Partitioning Problem is one of the most studied NP complete problems notable for its broad spectrum of applicability in digital circuit layout. The balanced constraint is an important constraint that obtains an area balanced layout without compromising the mincut objective. This paper ...

Intermodal terminals are important facilities in the container transport network, providing an exchange of containers between road and rail transport. Numerous factors can affect throughput in such highly integrated systems. These include numbers and types of equipment, physical layout, storage capacity and operating strategies. This study aims to improve operating strategies by developing an a...

Lossless Compression Algorithm for Hierarchical IC Layout

| A methodology for the automatic synthesis of full-custom IC layout with analog constraints is presented. The methodology guarantees that all performance constraints are met when feasible, or otherwise infeasibil-ity is detected as soon as possible, thus providing a robust and eecient design environment. In the proposed approach, performance speciications are translated into lower level bounds...

In this paper we present results from the case studies of two homecare groups that have recently adopted the same workflow system. From these, we present evidence that the physical layout of the meeting space can generate spheres of collaboration that influence i t raction between t am members, the technology and each other. This paper contributes to the CHI literature by presenting case study ...

Media architecture has emerged as a relevant field of study within HCI since its inception at the turn of the century. While media architecture has the potential to radically affect the social space into which it is introduced, much research in the field was initially carried out through experimental installations in public spaces, often with higher emphasis on examining the properties of this ...

Feng-Shui (meaning wind and water) has a strong indication for the placement of a physical object in space since it determines propitious locations by investigating the vital energy of the earth (Qi) throughout the lay of the land. Feng-Shui is the product of ancient Chinese cosmological beliefs and their responses to the land which were directly linked to survival and healthy living since it w...

Beginning with Talmy’s work in the late 1970’s and early1980’s, cognitive linguists have argued that fictive motion—roughly, mentally simulated motion along a path or linear configuration—motivates the use and structure of a class of figurative uses of motion verbs. On this view, a motion verb describes an inherently static scene, as in The road runs along the coast or A trail goes through the ...

We are concerned with the extraction of tables from exchange format representations of very diverse composite documents. We put forward a flexible representation scheme for complex tables, based on a clear distinction between the physical layout of a table and its logical structure. Relying on this scheme, we develop a new method for the detection and the extraction of tables by an analysis of ...

SUMMARY. In a parallel line assay, there are three treatment contrasts of major importance. Block designs allowing the estimability of all the three contrasts free from block effects, called L-designs, necessarily have the block sizes even. For odd block sizes, we provide here a class of highly efficient designs, called nearly L-designs. These nearly L-designs have been constructed by establish...