A novel layout design to effectively reduce the layout area of the thin-oxide NMOS and PMOS devices in CMOS output buffers with ESD consideration is proposed. With respect to the traditional finger-type layout, the large-dimension output NMOS and PMOS devices are realized by multiple octagonal cells. Without using extra ESD-optimization process, the output NMOS and PMOS devices in this octagon-...

This paper presents an algorithm for solving a multi-floor facility layout problem. The most apparent difference and also the potential difficulty in a multi-floor facility layout problem, compared to a single floor facility layout problem, are the problems regarding the placement of the vertical transportation equipments (elevators), which are to be used for vertical transportation occuring wi...

This demo shows a real-time object-layout-aware image retrieval system for personal album management. The query of the system is image’s object layout and the system retrieves images based on the layout similarity of concerned objects in the query. Using automatic object localization algorithms, we propose to index the personal album with the object positions and scales in the 2D image plane, w...

This paper presents the first ever virtual keyboard layout based on character frequency analysis of Urdu Corpus. To optimize the keyboard layout Monte Carlo Simulation with simulated annealing is used. Furthermore, the proposed keyboard layout is augmented with word prediction list derived from Urdu corpus to speed up text entry. Performance analysis of keyboard layout is done for justification...

We construct partitions of rectangles into smaller rectangles from an input consisting of a planar dual graph of the layout together with restrictions on the orientations of edges and junctions of the layout. Such an orientationconstrained layout, if it exists, may be constructed in polynomial time, and all orientation-constrained layouts may be listed in polynomial time per layout.

Automated layout of line diagrams for concept lattices is a hard problem as it requires not only asthetical but also semantic considerations. While many layout approaches have been proposed to produce line diagrams that are perceived as good for many applications, a general approach that suits all applications has not yet been found. Instead of proposing another specific layout approach we prop...

Four experiments investigated the role of reference frames during the acquisition and development of spatial knowledge, when learning occurs incrementally across views. In two experiments, participants learned overlapping spatial layouts. Layout 1 was first studied in isolation, and Layout 2 was later studied in the presence of Layout 1. The Layout 1 learning view was manipulated, whereas the L...

The paper presents self-organizing graphs, a novel approach to graph layout based on a competitive learning algorithm. This method is an extension of self-organization strategies known from unsupervised neural networks, namely from Kohonen's self-organizing map. Its main advantage is that it is very exibly adaptable to arbitrary types of visualization spaces, for it is explicitly parameterized ...

Models are widely used and are one of the advanced tools of software engineering. Therefore, it is very important that the models and diagrams are well built not only considering their content, but also how they visually represent information, how they are layout. Layout is an important factor considering readability and comprehensibility of a diagram. Providing manual diagram layout is time co...

This paper investigates how individual perceptions and attitudes about an organization influence multitasking behaviors in the workplace. While we know that individuals’ behaviors are influenced by the characteristics of their organizations (e.g., ICTs, physical layout), we still do not know much about how the way individuals interpret their organization influences their multitasking behaviors....