Times are changing: After 14 years of working for the Macromolecular (and Advanced) journals, last seven which I have served as Editor-in-Chief family, am extremely happy and proud to hand over my official role esteemed colleagues. While success that family has had under leadership, these successes would not been possible without capable hands colleagues several years. It comes no surprise Dr. ...

The inter-cell layout problem is discussed and a mathematical formulation for material flow between the cells is presented. The problem is modeled as a quadratic assignment problem (QAP). An ant algorithm is developed to solve the formulated problem. The performance of the proposed ant algorithm is compared to the facility layout algorithms such as H63, HC63-66, CRAFT and Bubble Search as well ...

When creating an editor for a visual language, a challenging task is the layout specification. Many visual languages, e.g., Ecore diagrams or Petri nets, show similar layout characteristics, and hence reuse of layout behavior should be enabled. For that purpose, we introduce the concept of layout patterns, which encapsulates certain layout behavior. With the approach, it is possible to combine ...

We present a recursive method for generating layout for VLSI chips which combines the flexibility of gate array and standard cell layout with the control and density of custom layout. The method allows seamless integration of hand-drawn and synthesized layout, so that hand layout need only be used where the increase in density is justified. Layout is generated automatically with predictable res...