Moving block sequence and organizational evolutionary algorithm for general floorplanning with arbitrarily shaped rectilinear blocks

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 630-646

  Liu, Jing ^a   Zhong, Weicai ^a   Jiao, Licheng ^a   Li, Xue ^b  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evolutionary algorithms; Floorplanning; Moving block sequence; Organization; Very large scale integration

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TRAIN CONTROL; BENCHMARKING; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SOLUTIONS;

FLOORPLANNING; MOVING BLOCK SEQUENCE; ORGANIZATION; VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 53349147913     PISSN: 1089778X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2008.920679     Document Type: Article

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