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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Vertex Ordering for a Partitioning-based Fitting Algorithm for an EPLD Device

Gao, Tongjun 05 November 1993 (has links)
As the Application-Specific Integrated Circuit(ASIC) technology develops to the trend of high density and modulization, the ASIC device market has been dominated gradually by the more complex Erasable Programmable Logic Devices (EPLDs) and the Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGAs) instead of the ordinally Programmable Logic Devices(PLDs). Meanwhile, the design automation system for such programmable devices has also moved from schematic entry design to high level hardware description language entry design. Usually, the whole design automation process consists of three phrases, the high level hardware description language compiler, the logic synthesis stage and the layout synthesis stage. Though the layout synthesis stage contains placement and routing, for some highly restricted connection architecture devices, placement and routing have to be considered together as a fitting problem. This thesis concentrated on the utilization of the Heuristic methods, which can be described as vertex ordering and global vertices number estimation, on an Architecture-Driven Partitioning fitting algorithm. The test results showed that the heuristic algorithm can beat the comparable algorithm in several fields. These prove the correctness of our heuristic methods and they can be used to guide the future work on the fitting problem of other similar programmable devices.
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A heuristic for the assignment problem and related bounds /

Lai, Cheong Wai. January 1981 (has links)
No description available.
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Formal symbolic verification using heuristic search and abstraction techniques

Qian, Kairong, Computer Science & Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW January 2006 (has links)
Computing devices are pervading our everyday life and imposing challenges for designers that have the responsibility of producing reliable hardware and software systems. As systems grow in size and complexity, it becomes increasingly difficult to verify whether a design works as intended. Conventional verification methods, such as simulation and testing, exercise only parts of the system and from these parts, draw conclusions about the correctness of the total design. For complex designs, the parts of the system that can be verified are relatively small. Formal verification aims to overcome this problem. Instead of exercising the system, formal verification builds mathematical models of designs and proves whether properties hold in these models. In doing so, it at least aims to cover the complete design. Model checking is a formal verification method that automatically verifies a model of a design, or generates diagnostic information if the model cannot be verified. It is because of this usability and level of automation that model checking has gained a high degree of success in verifying circuit designs. The major disadvantage of model checking is its poor scalability. This is due to its algorithmic nature: namely, every state of the model needs to be enumerated. In practice, properties of interest may not need the exhaustive enumeration of the model state space. Many properties can be verified (or falsified) by examining a small number of states. In such cases, exhaustive algorithms can be replaced with search algorithms that are directed by heuristics. Methods based on heuristics generally scale well. This thesis investigates non-exhaustive model checking algorithms and focuses on error detection in system verification. The approach is based on a novel integration of symbolic model checking, heuristic search and abstraction techniques to produce a framework that we call abstractiondirected model checking. There are 3 main components in this framework. First, binary decision diagrams (BDDs) and heuristic search are combined to develop a symbolic heuristic search algorithm. This algorithm is used to detect errors. Second, abstraction techniques are applied in an iterative way. In the initial phase, the model is abstracted, and this model is verified using exhaustive algorithms. If a definitive verification result cannot be obtained, the same abstraction is re-used to generate a search heuristic. The heuristic in turn is used to direct a search algorithm that searches for error states in the concrete model. Third, a model transformation mechanism converts an arbitrary branching-time property to a reachability property. Essentially, this component allows this framework to be applied to a more general class of temporal property. By amalgamating these three components, the framework offers a new verification methodology that speeds up error detection in formal verification. The current implementation of this framework indicates that it can outperform existing standard techniques both in run-time and memory consumption, and scales much better than conventional model checking.
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Simulated annealing heuristics for the dynamic facility layout problem

Kuppusamy, Saravanan. January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2001. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 133 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-94).
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A multiple ant colony metaheuristic for the air refueling tanker assignment problem

Annaballi, RonJon. January 2002 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.)--Air Force Institute of Technology, 2002. / Title from title screen (viewed Oct. 28, 2003). Vita. "AFIT/GOR/ENS/02-01." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-86). Also issued in paper format.
26

Finite memory policies for partially observable Markov decision processes

Lusena, Christopher. January 2001 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kentucky, 2001. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 89 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-86).
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Heuristic and exact techniques for solving a temperature estimation model /

Henderson, Dale L., January 2005 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Arizona, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-104). Also available online.
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A comparative study of assembly job shop scheduling using simulation, heuristics and meta-heuristics

Lü, Haili., 吕海利. January 2011 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy
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Characterizing neighborhoods favorable to local search techniques

Dimova, Boryana Slavcheva 28 August 2008 (has links)
Not available / text
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A group theoretic approach to metaheuristic local search for partitioning problems

Kinney, Gary W. 28 August 2008 (has links)
Not available / text

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