Community structure is one of the most commonly observed features of Online Social Networks (OSNs) in reality. The knowledge of this feature is of great advantage: it not only provides helpful insights into developing more efficient social-aware solutions but also promises a wide range of applications enabled by social and mobile networking, such as routing strategies in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ...

Measurement of coronary artery stenosis is an invaluable tool in the study of coronary artery disease. Clinical trials and even day-to-day decision making should ideally be based on accurate and reproducible quantitative methods. Quantitative coronary angiography (QCA) using digital angiographic techniques has been shown to fulfill these requirements. Yet many laboratories have abandoned visual...

This paper describes research on a novel design and simulation tool for quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), which we refer to as QCADesigner. A typical design window is shown in Figure 1. QCADesigner facilitates rapid design of QCA circuits by implementing different simulation engines and many standard CAD capabilities [1][2]. The results of a simulation are displayed in graphs such as the one...

QCA is a novel emerging technology in which logic states are not stored as voltage levels, but rather the position of individual electrons. Conceptually, QCA represents binary information by utilizing a bistable charge configuration rather than a current switch. A QCA cell can be viewed as a set of four “dots” that are positioned at the corners of a square. A quantum dot is a site in a cell in ...

Most of Exclusive-OR(XOR) logic gates on quantum-dot cellular automata(QCA) is based on configuration of 2-input, and they are hardly to be scalable and exists unbearable noise because they are only focused on decrease of latency and space. In this paper, we propose how to make a scalable logic using a wire crossing technique, and give examples of two expanded XOR gate using typical logic gates...

We investigate the benefit of using ESOP minimization in the synthesis of quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA). We determine the size and delay of multi-input XOR and AND/OR gates when implemented in using 3-input majority gates that are easily realized in QCA, and use our results in our QCAexor estimator tool. We found that most benchmarks have at least one output that can be better minimized u...

Power consumption in irreversible QCA logic circuits is a vital and a major issue; however in the practical cases, this focus is mostly omitted.The complete power depletion dataset of different QCA multiplexers have been worked out in this paper. At -271.15 °C temperature, the depletion is evaluated under three separate tunneling energy levels. All the circuits are designed with QCADesigner, a ...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are an emerging technology and a possible alternative for faster speed, smaller size, and low power consumption than semiconductor transistor based technologies. Previously, adder designs based on conventional designs were examined for implementation with QCA technology. This paper utilizes the QCA characteristics to design a fault-tolerant adder that is more...

Recent experiments have demonstrated a working cell suitable for implementing the quantum-dot cellular automata ~QCA! paradigm. These experiments have been performed using metal-island clusters. The most promising approach to QCA operation involves quasiadiabatically switching the cells. This has been analyzed extensively in gated semiconductor cells. Here we present a metal-island cell structu...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are nanoscale digital logic constructs that use electrons in arrays of quantum dots to carry out binary operations. In this paper, a basic building block for QCA will be proposed. The proposed basic building block can be customized to implement classical gates, such as XOR and XNOR gates, and reversible gates, such as CNOT and Toffoli gates, with less cell co...