the massive sulphide deposit at kantienpan cu-zn mine is hosted by volcano sedimentary succession known as the areachap group, in the eastern part of namaqua metamorphic province, south africa. the deposits were affected by a complex deformation and metamorphic history and represent examples of upper amphibolite to granulite grade metamorphosed volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (vhms) depo...

The Sesame system-level simulation framework targets efficient design space exploration of embedded multimedia systems. Even despite Sesame’s efficiency, it would fail to explore large parts of the design space simply because system-level simulation is too slow for this. Therefore, Sesame uses analytical performance models to provide steering to the system-level simulation, guiding it toward pr...

This paper describes the tight integration of design space exploration with spatial and temporal partitioning algorithms in the SPARCS design automation system for RCs. In particular, this paper describes a novel technique to perform efficient design space exploration of parallel-process behaviors using the knowledge of spatial partitioning. The exploration technique satisfies the design latenc...

1. We propose a technique for test scheduling and design of test bus infrastructure where test application time and test bus length and width are minimized while constraints on power consumption and test resources are considered. Our approach is suitable for repeated use in the design space exploration process due to its low computational cost. For the final design, we use simulated annealing t...

This chapter focuses on resource management techniques for performance or energy optimization in multi-/many-core systems. First, it gives a comprehensive overview about resource management in a broad perspective. Secondly, it discusses the possible optimization goals and constraints of resource management techniques: computational performance, power consumption, energy consumption, and tempera...

This paper presents an Integrated Framework of Design Optimization and Space Minimization (IDOM) for generating the minimum number of functional units with schedule length and memory constraints. Our algorithm efficiently prunes the search space, and eliminates inferior design points by the following: 1) selecting a minimum set of candidate unfolding factors, 2) integrating optimization techniq...

Individual behavior, in biology, economics, and computer science, is often described in terms of balancing exploration and exploitation. Foraging has been a canonical setting for studying reward seeking and information gathering, from bacteria to humans, mostly focusing on individual behavior. Inspired by the gradient-climbing nature of chemotaxis, the infotaxis algorithm showed that locally ma...

Power grid design and maintenance are conducted to solve the problems caused by load growth over time and to stay within the constraints of voltage drop, power factor, etc. Typically, solutions to these problems are optimised individually. Considering multiple problems simultaneously and applying different solutions require vast design space exploration. This exclusively needs advanced algorith...

Discrimination of the blind and dispersed mineralization deposits is a challenging problem in geochemical exploration. The frequency domain (FD) of the surface geochemical data can solve this important issue. This new exploratory information can be achieved using the interpretation of FD of geochemical data, which is impossible in spatial domain. In this research work, FD of the surface geochem...