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ANTSW
2006
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Parallel Ant Colony Optimization for the Traveling Salesman Problem
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...
Max Manfrin, Mauro Birattari, Thomas Stützle,...
WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Optimizing staffing schedule in light of patient satisfaction for the whole outpatient hospital ward
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...
Soemon Takakuwa, Athula Wijewickrama
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
118views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Finding the optimal quantum size: Sensitivity analysis of the M/G/1 round-robin queue
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...
Varun Gupta
ICCD
2003
IEEE
177views Hardware» more  ICCD 2003»
16 years 4 months ago
SAT-Based Algorithms for Logic Minimization
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...
Samir Sapra, Michael Theobald, Edmund M. Clarke
ICCAD
1999
IEEE
72views Hardware» more  ICCAD 1999»
15 years 11 months ago
An integrated algorithm for combined placement and libraryless technology mapping
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...
Yanbin Jiang, Sachin S. Sapatnekar