For the past few decades, combinatorial optimization techniques have been shown to be powerful tools for formulating and solving optimization problems arising from practical situations. In particular, many network design problems have been formulated as combinatorial optimization problems. With the advances of optical technologies and the explosive growth of the Internet, telecommunication netw...

This paper reviews some of the work in the area of statistical circuit design. While space does not permit a more then superficial survey of the entire field, specific emphasis is placed on those techniques more familiar to the authors.

The paper explores the recent architecture evaluations and related issues and compares NISC (No Instruction Set Computer) features to those of CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) and RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) processors. It has been observed that the complexities with embedded systems have increased manifold and the design community has been searching a suitable method that ca...

With the advances in wireless technologies and the explosive growth of the Internet, wireless networks, especially Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), are going through an important evolution. Designing efficient WMNs has become a major task for networks operators. Over the last few years, a plethora of studies has been carried out to improve the efficiency of wireless networks. However, only a few ...

In order to construct large and complex software systems which provide the necessary infrastructure in a systematic manner, the focus in the development methodologies has switched in the last two decades from functional issues to structural issues. The encapsulation principle is essential to both the object-oriented and the more recent component based software engineering paradigms. Formal meth...

The usual approach to the acquisition of 2-D and 3-D seismic surveys is to use a recording template designed from the maximum target dips and depths. This template is used through out the survey area irrespective of changes in the dips, depths or propagation velocities of the targets. I propose to base the survey design on an initial structural and velocity model of the subsurface. The initial ...

1 INTRODUCTION Inclusive design (ID), that is, design for a wide range of potential users, including those who are older or have disabilities, can have significant commercial benefits, tapping into a large and growing number of older and disabled consumers [1], as well as meeting legislative requirements (e.g. [2]). However, while many companies agree with this, many still choose to target youn...

Plant layout design is related to the location of facilities (e.g. machines, departments) in a plant. They are known to greatly impact the system performance. Numerous research works related to facility layout have been published. A few literature reviews exist, but they are not recent or are restricted to certain specific aspects of these layout design. The literature analysis given here is re...

Search-based approaches to software design are investigated. Software design is considered from a wide view, including topics that can also be categorized under software maintenance or re-engineering. Search-based approaches have been used in research from high architecture level design to software clustering and finally software refactoring. Enhancing and predicting software quality with searc...

Missing data yields many analysis challenges. In case of complex survey design, in addition to dealing with missing data, researchers need to account for the sampling design to achieve useful inferences. Methods for incorporating sampling weights in neural network imputation were investigated to account for complex survey designs. An estimate of variance to account for the imputation uncertaint...