In today’s business world, competitiveness defines as an industry leader to drive towards maximum efficiency and it is constantly at the forefront of the companies objectives. Managers across the country are striving to adopt lean manufacturing practices to improve their bottom line cellular manufacturing and it helps to build a variety of products with as little scrap as possible. Layout a fac...

In this paper, a machine learning approach to support the user during the correction of the layout analysis is proposed. Layout analysis is the process of extracting a hierarchical structure describing the layout of a page. In our approach, the layout analysis is performed in two steps: firstly, the global analysis determines possible areas containing paragraphs, sections, columns, figures and ...

The VLSI layout designing is a highly complex process and hence a layout is often subjected to Layout Verification that includes (a) Design Rule Checking to check if the layout satisfies various design rules and (b) Connectivity Extraction to check if the components of the layout are properly electrically connected. In this work we study two geometric query problems which have applications in t...

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. ...