There are two reasons for parallelizing a metaheuristic if one is interested in performance: (i) given a fixed time to search, the aim is to increase the quality of the solutions f...
The waiting time for patients in outpatient departments of hospitals is a problem throughout the world. In this context, a discrete-event-simulation model was developed to examine...
We consider the round robin (RR) scheduling policy where the server processes each job in its buffer for at most a fixed quantum, q, in a round-robin fashion. The processor sharin...
This paper introduces a new method for two-level logic minimization. Unlike previous approaches, the new method uses a SAT solver as an underlying engine. While the overall minimi...
This paper presents a new solution for combining technology mapping with placement, coupling the two into one phase. The original aspects of our work are the use of libraryless ma...