Layout generation plays a crucial role in graphic design intelligence. One important characteristic of the layouts is that they usually follow certain principles. For example, principle repetition emphasizes reuse similar visual elements throughout design. To generate layout, previous works mainly attempt at predicting absolute value bounding box for each element, where such target representati...

This project is a follow up from a stockyard layout planning research conducted by the authors where simulation approach has been used to establish the best stock layout for the efficient storage, loading and dispatch of precast concrete products. It was concluded from the research that a more robust real-time management system should be in place to implement stockyard layout plans and assist p...

Recently, an improved (l + k) constrainted differential evolution (ICDE) has been proposed and proven to be robust and effective for solving constrainted optimization problems. However, so far, the ICDE has been developed mainly for continuous design variables, and hence it becomes inappropriate for solving layout truss optimization problems which contain both discrete and continuous variables....

A new CMOS dynamic comparator using dual input single output differential amplifier as latch stage suitable for high speed analog-to-digital converters with High Speed, low power dissipation and immune to noise than the previous reported work is proposed. Back to-back inverter in the latch stage is replaced with dual-input single output differential amplifier. This topology completely removes t...

In a Neutrino Factory, a 4 MW proton beam with a kinetic energy between 5 and 15 GeV interacts with a free floating liquid mercury jet target in order to produce pions which after capturing are let to decay forming a muon beam, input to the front-end accelerator system of the facility. The baseline capturing layout consists of a series of normal and superconducting solenoids producing a tapered...

While a number of techniques have been developed for table recognition in ordinary text documents, when dealing with tables in mathematical documents these techniques are often ineffective as tables containing mathematical structures can differ quite significantly from ordinary text tables. In fact, it is even difficult to clearly distinguish table recognition in mathematics from layout analysi...

To design a group layout of a cellular manufacturing system (CMS) in a dynamic environment, a multi-objective mixed-integer non-linear programming model is developed. The model integrates cell formation, group layout and production planning (PP) as three interrelated decisions involved in the design of a CMS. This paper provides an extensive coverage of important manufacturing features u...

 This paper present unequal-sized facilities layout solutions generated by a genetic search program named LADEGA (Layout Design using a Genetic Algorithm). The generalized quadratic assignment problem requiring pre-determined distance and material flow matrices as the input data and the continuous plane model employing a dynamic distance measure and a material flow matrix are discussed. Computa...

In this paper we present a parallel global routing algorithm for general cell layout. The algorithm applies a hierarchical decomposition strategy that recursively divides routing problems into simple, independent subproblems for parallel processing. The solution of each subproblem is based on integer programming and network flow optimization. The algorithm is implemented on a shared-memory mach...