Many multimedia communication applications require a source to send multimedia information to multiple destinations through a communication network. To support these applications, it is necessary to determine a multicast tree of minimal cost to connect the source node to the destination nodes subject to delay constraints on multimedia communication. This problem is known as multimedia multicast...

Floorplanning is an essential step in physical design of VLSI. The floorplan design problem is how to place a set of circuit modules on a chip such that the resulting area is minimized. The best known solutions are obtained using simulated annealing based on sequence pairs representing the planning of modules. The conventional simulated annealing algorithm conducts a random perturbation operati...

Using the experimental design methods, instead of deterministic ones commonly used by chemists, to estimate the kinetic constants is a very important subject in chemical researches, since such-obtained kinetic parameters have much better statistical properties. D-optimum design is a popular statistical technique, which emphasizes to obtain the estimated parameters with the smallest content of t...