The simplicity, transparency, reliability, high efficiency and robust nature of PID controllers
are some of the reasons for their high popularity and acceptance for control in process …

The component layout or packaging problem requires efficient search of large,
discontinuous spaces. This survey paper reviews the state-of-the-art in product layout …

Simulated Annealing (SA) is one of the simplest and best-known metaheuristic method for
addressing difficult black box global optimization problems whose objective function is not …

We demonstrate that, under a theorem proposed by Vuong, the likelihood ratio statistic
based on the Kullback–Leibler information criterion of the null hypothesis that a random …

Simulated annealing and Boltzmann machines: a stochastic approach to combinatorial
optimization and neural computing | Guide books skip to main content ACM Digital Library …

Many statistical methods rely on numerical optimization to estimate a model's parameters.
Unfortunately, conventional algorithms sometimes fail. Even when they do converge, there is …

Taskflow aims to streamline the building of parallel and heterogeneous applications using a
lightweight task graph-based approach. Taskflow introduces an expressive task graph …

We describe a new method for determining component values and transistor dimensions for
CMOS operational amplifiers (op-amps). We observe that a wide variety of design objectives …

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are now an indispensable tool in scientific
computing. This book discusses recent developments of MCMC methods with an emphasis …

Over the past decade, system-on-chip (SoC) designs have evolved to address the ever
increasing complexity of applications, fueled by the era of digital convergence …