We present a method for designing truss structures, a common and complex category of buildings, using non-linear optimization. Truss structures are ubiquitous in the industrialize...
Jeffrey Smith, Jessica K. Hodgins, Irving Oppenhei...
Abstract-- Given a family of real or complex monic polynomials of fixed degree with one fixed affine constraint on their coefficients, consider the problem of minimizing the root r...
Vincent D. Blondel, Mert Gurbuzbalaban, Alexandre ...
The progressive trend of fabrication technologies towards the nanometer regime has created a number of new physical design challenges for computer architects. Design complexity, u...
Todd M. Austin, Valeria Bertacco, David Blaauw, Tr...
This paper presents an algorithm to bound the bandwidth of a Web crawler. The crawler collects statistics on the transfer rate of each server to predict the expected bandwidth use...
Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Maggini, Filippo Mar...
We present an account of designing and evaluating a university-wide expert search engine. We performed system-based evaluation to determine the optimal retrieval settings and an ex...