Chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) and other manufacturing steps in very deep submicron VLSI have varying effects on device and interconnect features, depending on local character...
Yu Chen, Andrew B. Kahng, Gabriel Robins, Alexande...
Abstract. We propose a BFGS primal-dual interior point method for minimizing a convex function on a convex set defined by equality and inequality constraints. The algorithm generat...
Paul Armand, Jean Charles Gilbert, Sophie Jan-J&ea...
We describe HTN-MAKER, an algorithm for learning hierarchical planning knowledge in the form of decomposition methods for Hierarchical Task Networks (HTNs). HTNMAKER takes as inpu...
In contemporary TV news programs, multi-level anchorpersons are often used which indicate the inherent hierarchical structure of news program. However, these diverse anchorperson ...
Increasing popularity of XML and P2P networks has generated much interest in distributed processing of XML data. We propose a novel solution organized around a mediator capable of...