Identifying and resolving design problems in the early design phase can help ensure software quality and save costs. There are currently few tools for analyzing designs expressed ...
Lijun Yu, Robert B. France, Indrakshi Ray, Kevin L...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
A new stochastic optimization algorithm referred to by the authors as the `Mean-Variance Optimization' (MVO) algorithm is presented in this paper. MVO falls into the category ...
Istvan Erlich, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Nakawiro...
—This paper presents a new cooperative coevolving particle swarm optimization (CCPSO) algorithm in an attempt to address the issue of scaling up particle swarm optimization (PSO)...
Microfluidics-based biochips offer exciting possibilities for highthroughput sequencing, parallel immunoassays, blood chemistry for clinical diagnostics, DNA sequencing, and envir...