Placement is essential in very large-scale integration (VLSI) physical design, as it directly affects the design cycle. Despite extensive prior research on placement, achieving fast and efficient placement remains challenging because of the increasin...
Fog computing as a paradigm was offered more than a decade ago to solve Cloud Computing issues. Long transmission distances, higher data flow, data loss, latency, and energy consumption lead to providing services at the edge of the network. But, fog...
17 November 2017
Objectives: The Quebec Youth Protection Act was amended in 2007. The main goal of this reform was to improve placement stability for children who are removed from their home for their protection. Among several legal provisions introduced was the esta...
Background/Objectives: A variety of techniques for pedicle screw placement exist. Efficiency claims have varied, but limited data are available to support or refute these claims. Our goal was to study our screw placement efficiency, reporting real-ti...
This paper deals with spatio-temporal field estimation with efficient sensor placement based on the QR decomposition. The proposed method also identifies the optimal number of sensors needed for field estimation that captures the most relevant featur...
Standard-cell placement is the fundamental step in a typical VLSI/ASIC design flow. Its result, paired with the outcome of the routing procedure can be the decisive factor in rendering a design manufacturable. Global placement generates an optimized...
30 January 2021
Brand placement in videogames consists in integrating various brands that are not intrusive to give a feeling of reality to the context, as such increasing awareness and recognition of the brand in the mind of the consumer. The goal of this study is...
This paper proposes algorithms for optimal placement of base stations (BSs) and central stations (CSs) in mining quarries to ensure reliable radio communication for automated machinery. The BS placement is modeled as a minimum dominating set problem,...
Phylogenetic identification of unknown sequences by placing them on a tree is routinely attempted in modern ecological studies. Such placements are often obtained from incomplete and noisy data, making it essential to augment the results with some no...
Virtualization is a key technology for mobile cloud computing (MCC) and the virtual machine (VM) is a core component of virtualization. VM provides a relatively independent running environment for different applications. Therefore, the VM placement p...
Augmented reality (AR) is a relevant technology, which has demonstrated to be efficient for several applications, especially in the architecture, engineering, construction and operation (AECO) domain, where the integration of building information mod...
In recent years, the animation market in China has flourished, and many brands use animation as a popular promotional platform to showcase their products and brands through product placement, benefitting from this marketing approach. Therefore, there...
The automated fiber placement (AFP) process faces a crucial challenge: the emergence of out-of-plane buckling in thermoplastic prepreg tows during steering, significantly impeding the quality of composite layup. In response, this study introduces a n...
As the scale of onshore wind farms are increasing, the influence of wake behavior on power production becomes increasingly significant. Wind turbines sittings in onshore wind farms should take terrain into consideration including height change and sl...
Using drone cells to optimize Radio Access Networks is an exemplary way to enhance the capabilities of terrestrial Radio Access Networks. Drones fitted with communication and relay modules can act as drone cells to provide an unobtrusive network conn...
Objective: This review article aims to analyze the existing relevant literature comparing the clinical outcomes and underlining the most common complications associated with immediate, early, and delayed dental implant placement in order to determine...
This work aims to define the impact of different indicators on the sustainability of food placement in the retail sector, during periods of crisis and emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. An empirical survey conducted in the Western Balkans (W...
Sidetracking technology has become a relatively mature approach for redeveloping mature fields and restoring the productivity of old wells. However, the design of conventional sidetracking projects has largely relied on expert experience or numerical...
Inspired by sensor coverage density and matching & preserving strategy, this paper proposes an Improved Artificial Bee Colony (IABC) algorithm which is designed to optimize bridge sensor placement. We use dynamic random coverage coding method to...
Proppant placement in hydraulic fractures is crucial for avoiding fracture closure and maintaining a high conductivity pathway for oil and gas flow from the reservoir. The curving fracture is the primary fracture form in formation and affects proppan...
The emerging SDVN (Software Defined Vehicular Network) paradigm promises to bring flexibility and efficient resource utilization to vehicular networks, enabling the emergence of novel Intelligent Transportation Services. However, as it was initially...
In cloud data centers, determining how to balance the interests of the user and the cloud service provider is a challenging issue. In this study, a task-loading-oriented virtual machine (VM) optimization placement model and algorithm is proposed inte...
This review explores sensor selection and placement strategies for electric motor monitoring in industrial settings. A wide range of sensor types including temperature, vibration, current, and position sensors—are evaluated in terms of their te...
Wireless communication tower placement arises in many real-world applications. This paper investigates a new emerging wireless communication tower placement problem, namely, continuous space wireless communication tower placement. Unlike existing wir...
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a novel technology that virtualizes computing, network, and storage resources to decouple the network functions from the underlying hardware, thus allowing the software implementation of such functions to run...
The widespread adoption of network function virtualization (NFV) leads to providing network services through a chain of virtual network functions (VNFs). This architecture is called service function chain (SFC), which can be hosted on top of commodit...
With the convergence of the Internet of Things, 5G, and artificial intelligence, limited network bandwidth and bursts of incoming service requests seem to be the most important factors affecting user experience. Therefore, caching technology was intr...
In this paper, we investigate how one can modify an orthogonal graph drawing to accommodate the placement of overlap-free labels with the minimum cost (i.e., minimum increase of the area and preservation of the quality of the drawing). We investigate...
In this paper, a novel version of the Optimal Distributed Generation Placement (ODGP) problem regarding the siting and sizing of Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) units is presented, called Optimal RES placement (ORESP). Power losses constitute the obj...
Node placement is one of the basic problems in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). During the operation of a WSN, sensor nodes may fail or die suddenly, which may lead to a coverage hole. To solve this problem, the node placement needs to be re-optimize...
In this paper, the problem of sizing and placement of constant and switching capacitors in electrical distribution systems is modelled considering the load uncertainty. This model is formulated as a multicriteria mathematical problem. The risk of vol...
The Kinect v2 sensor may be a cheap and easy to use sensor to quantify gait in clinical settings, especially when applied in set-ups integrating multiple Kinect sensors to increase the measurement volume. Reliable estimates of foot placement location...
The placement of generation and storage stations (GSSs) in distribution grids has been extensively investigated. Most traditional methods are applicable to rural or homogeneous environments and do not account for external restrictions on generation p...
Phylogenetic placement, used widely in ecological analyses, seeks to add a new species to an existing tree. A deep learning approach was previously proposed to estimate the distance between query and backbone species by building a map from gene seque...
With several divided stages, placement and routing are the most critical and challenging steps in VLSI physical design. To ensure that physical implementation problems can be manageable and converged in a reasonable runtime, placement/routing problem...
Applications of wireless sensor network (WSN) often expect knowledge of the precise location of the nodes. Many different localization protocols have been proposed that allow nodes to derive their location rather than equipping them with dedicated lo...
This paper presents an optimal sensor placement method for vibration signal acquisition in the field of industrial robot health monitoring and fault diagnosis. Based on the general formula of Bayes and relative entropy, the evaluation function of sen...
The multi-sensor artificial lateral line system (ALLS) can identify the flow-field’s parameters to realize the closed-loop control of the underwater robotic fish. An inappropriate sensor placement of ALLS may result in inaccurate flow-field parametri...
Well placement optimization is considered a non-convex and highly multimodal optimization problem. In this article, a modified crow search algorithm is proposed to tackle the well placement optimization problem. This article proposes modifications ba...
Underwater concrete is a cohesive self-consolidated concrete used for concreting underwater structures such as bridge piers. Conventional concrete used anti-washout admixture (AWA) to form a high-viscosity underwater concrete to minimise the dispersi...
Optimal sensor placement is one of the important issues in monitoring the condition of structures, which has a major influence on monitoring system performance and cost. Due to this, it is still an open problem to find a compromise between these two...
Modal testing is a common step in aerostructure design, serving to validate the predicted natural frequencies and mode shapes obtained through computational methods. The strategic placement of sensors during testing is crucial for accurately measurin...
The electrification of transportation is necessary due to the expanded fuel cost and change in climate. The management of charging stations and their easy accessibility are the main concerns for receipting and accepting Electric Vehicles (EVs). The d...
This research delves into the aspects of communication and connectivity problems within random Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). It takes into account the distinctive role of the sink node, its placement, and application-specific requirements for effe...
The decision-making related to the placement of applications made from orchestrated serverless functions onto Cloud-Edge infrastructures is a challenging problem as it must consider functional and non-functional requirements. In this article, we prop...
This study presents a methodology for determining the optimal placement of sensors along the height of buildings to minimize uncertainty in reconstructing structural response at non-instrumented floors. Recent advancements in sensing technology have...
This article conducts a review of the literature on private placement and analyzes the risks facing China’s real estate companies. It argues that, within the framework of China’s hybrid economic model, private placement can serve as a mar...
Placement is crucial in physical design flow with significant impact on later routability and ultimate manufacturability in terms of performance, power, and area (PPA), which may deviate from finding the optimal solution and/or lead to unnecessary it...
With the advent of the Internet of things (IoT), intelligent transportation has evolved over time to improve traffic safety and efficiency as well as to reduce congestion and environmental pollution. However, there are some challenging issues to be a...
The high dimensional, multimodal, and discontinuous well placement optimization is one of the main difficult factors in the development process of conventional as well as shale gas reservoir, and to optimize this problem, metaheuristic techniques sti...
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