In Network-on-Chip (NoC) application design, coresearch, genetic algorithms and neural networks [1] are based to-node mapping is an important but intractable optimization on empirical techniques in nature. Simulated annealing (SA) problem. In the paper, we use simulated annealing to tackle the [7] is a generic probabilistic meta-algorithm for the global mapping problem in 2D mesh NoCs. In parti...

This study aims to minimize the total cost of a four-echelon supply chain including suppliers, an assembler, distributers, and retailers. The total cost consists of purchasing raw materials from the suppliers by the assembler, assembling the final product, materials transportation from the suppliers to the assembler, product transportation from the assembler to the distributors, product transpo...

Differently hydrogenated radio frequency-sputtered a-Si layers have been studied by infrared (IR) spectroscopy as a function of the annealing time at 350°C with the aim to get a deeper understanding of the origin of blisters previously observed by us in a-Si/a-Ge multilayers prepared under the same conditions as the ones applied to the present a-Si layers. The H content varied between 10.8 and ...

Direct electron microscopic examination confirms that short actin filaments rapidly anneal end-to-end in vitro, leading over time to an increase in filament length at steady state. During annealing of mixtures of native unlabeled filaments and glutaraldehyde-fixed filaments labeled with myosin subfragment-1, the structural polarity within heteropolymers is conserved absolutely. Annealing does n...

In [20] it was shown that the DNA primitives of Separate, Merge, and Amplify were not sufficiently powerful to invert functions defined by circuits in linear time. Dan Boneh et al [4] show that the addition of a ligation primitive, Append, provides the missing power. The question becomes, "How powerful is ligation? Are Separate, Merge, and Amplify necessary at all?" This paper proposes to infor...

The effect of dredge capture on the escape response ž / of the great scallop, Pecten maximus L. : implications for the survival of undersized discards Abstract The effect of simulated dredge capture on the swimming escape response of the great scallop, Pecten maximus, was assessed in order to determine the potential for mortality in undersized discards. Three experiments were carried out: first...

recently pcr is being used more frequently as a diagnostic method to detect m. pneumoniae. we used primer pairs reported by van kuppeveld,13 leng,5 lunerberg,7 an bernet' targeting 16s rrna, pi protein, tuf genes. and a short dna equence (mp5) to evaluate the sensitivity among different pcrs. reoptimization experiments showed that tuf pcr had the highest sensitivity amongst these four pcrs...

Various approaches of incorporating chaos into artificial neural networks have recently been proposed, and used successfully to solve combinatorial optimisation problems. This paper investigates three such approaches: 1) Chen & Aihara's transiently chaotic neural network with chaotic simulated annealing, which has a gradually decaying negative selfcoupling term; 2) Wang & Smith's chaotic simula...

We introduce four new general optimization algorithms based on the ‘demon’ algorithm from statistical physics and the simulated annealing (SA) optimization method. These algorithms reduce the computation time per trial without significant effect on the quality of solutions found. Any SA annealing schedule or move generation function can be used. The algorithms are tested on traveling salesman p...

Adaptive simulated annealing (ASA) is a global optimization algorithm based on an associated proof that the parameter space can be sampled much more efficiently than by using other previous simulated annealing algorithms. The author’s ASA code has been publicly available for over two years. During this time the author has volunteered to help people via e-mail, and the feedback obtained has been...