operator's role in industrial control centers takes place in time, which is one of the most important determinants of whether an expected action is going to be successful or not. in certain situations, due to the complex nature of the work, the existing interfaces and already prepared procedures do not meet the dynamic requirements of operator's cognitive demands, making the control tasks unnec...

Grouping the machines and parts in a cellular manufacturing system based on similarities is known as the cell formation. This paper proposes a method for design of cell layout for a manufacturing system under dynamic demand environment for automation batch production industry. The proposed method of cell layout has two phases. In the first phase, Rank Order Clustering (ROC) was used to determin...

This thesis reports a Genetic Algorithm approach for the mask-layout and process flow synthesis problem. For a given desired target shape, an optimal mask-layout and process flow can be automatically generated using the Genetic Algorithm synthesis approach. The Genetic Algorithm manipulates and evolves a population of candidate solutions (mask-layouts and process parameters) by utilizing a proc...

Zoning documents increases the resolution of indexing from the image level to the field level. A line-delimited tabular document forms a well defined series of regions. However, as image quality decreases, accurate zoning becomes increasingly difficult. Given a sequence of documents with the same layout, we present a robust zoning method which exploits both intraand inter-document consensus to ...

This paper presents a new 10T SRAM cell that has enhanced read speed along with good read and write stability. While the read access time of the proposed cell is 0.72x and 0.83x smaller as compared to the two most popular 10T SRAM cells at 500C; the read SNM is 1.16x and 1.05x higher compared to existing 10T cells. Though the read-write power of the proposed cell is higher with respect to the e...

The constraint-based layout model is a very powerful model to describe a wide range of graphical user interface (GUI) layouts, based on linear constraints. However, the advantages of the constraint-based layout model come at a price: layout designers have to ensure layouts are sound, i.e., they are solvable and items in the layout do not overlap each other. Keeping a layout sound is non-trivial...