We investigated people’s ability to report the shape and scale of a spatial layout after sparse contact, without vision. We propose that the initial representation of sparsely contacted layout is kinesthetic. From this can be computed a configural representation that supports reports of shape and scale, but at the cost of increased error. In four experiments, participants’ fingers were guided t...

In this article, a novel integrated mixed-integer nonlinear programming model is presented for designing a cellular manufacturing system (CMS) considering machine layout and part scheduling problems simultaneously as interrelated decisions. The integrated CMS model is formulated to incorporate several design features including part due date, material handling time, operation sequence, processin...

In this paper, we present a nanometric layout generation tool for analogue building blocks called devices. We focus on the procedural routing methods inside devices. A device may have one or more folded transistors’ fingers merged into at least one stack depending on the chosen layout style. We present two routing methods: intra-stack and inter-stack to ease the routing of the wired segments. T...

Several applications require the joint display of two phylogenetic trees whose leaves are matched by inter-tree edges. This issue arises, for example, when comparing gene trees and species trees or when studying the co-speciation of hosts and parasites. The tanglegram layout problem seeks to produce a layout of the two trees that minimizes the number of crossings between the inter-tree edges. T...

The runtime of model-based optical proximity correction (OPC) tools has grown unacceptably with each successive technology generation, and has emerged as one of the major bottlenecks for turnaround time (TAT) of IC data preparation and manufacturing. The cell-based OPC approach improves runtime by performing OPC once per cell definition as opposed to once per cell instantiation in the layout. H...

the full adders (fas) constitute the essential elements of digital systems, in a sense that they affect the circuit parameters of such systems. with respect to the mosfet restrictions, its replacement by new devices and technologies is inevitable. qca is one of the accomplishments in nanotechnology nominated as the candidate for mosfet replacement. in this article 4 new layouts are presented fo...

The Full Adders (FAs) constitute the essential elements of digital systems, in a sense that they affect the circuit parameters of such systems. With respect to the MOSFET restrictions, its replacement by new devices and technologies is inevitable. QCA is one of the accomplishments in nanotechnology nominated as the candidate for MOSFET replacement. In this article 4 new layouts are presente...

Zoning documents increases the resolution of indexing from the image level to the field level. A line-delimited tabular document forms a well defined series of regions. However, as image quality decreases, accurate zoning becomes increasingly difficult. Given a sequence of documents with the same layout, we present a robust zoning method which exploits both intraand inter-document consensus to ...

We introduce multiforce, a force-directed layout for multiplex networks, where the nodes of the network are organized into multiple layers and both in-layer and inter-layer relationships among nodes are used to compute node coordinates. The proposed approach generalizes existing work, providing a range of intermediate layouts in-between the ones produced by known methods. Our experiments on rea...