Optimal placement by branch-and-price

Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 337-342

  Ramachandaran, Pradeep ^a   Agnihotri, Ameya R ^b   Ono, Satoshi ^b,c,d   Damodaran, Purushothaman ^a   Srihari, Krishnaswami ^a   Madden, Patrick H ^b,d  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSD   (United States)

^c FAIS   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KITAKYUSHU   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

BRANCH AND PRICE; CIRCUIT PLACEMENT; OPTIMAL PLACEMENTS; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; PLACEMENT PROBLEMS; SIMPLE METRICS; SMALL SCALE; SUBOPTIMALITY;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84861432365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1120725.1120865     Document Type: Conference Paper

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