Exploring time/resource trade-offs by solving dual scheduling problems with the ant colony optimization

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Gang ^a,d   Gong, Wenrui ^b   Derenzi, Brian ^c,e   Kastner, Ryan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Design space exploration; Instruction scheduling; Max min ant system

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION; INSTRUCTION SCHEDULING; MAX-MIN ANT SYSTEM;

AD HOC NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 35148892375     PISSN: 10844309     EISSN: 15577309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1278349.1278359     Document Type: Article

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