Multilevel Optimization in VLSICAD (Combinatorial Optimization)
Contributors: J. Cong (Editor); J.R. Shinnerl (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781402010811
Subjects: Electronics engineering; General Theory of Computing; Programming - Algorithms; Integrated circuits, Very larg; Computer-aided design; Computers; Technology & Industrial Arts; Multidisciplinary design optimization; Computer Books: General; Multidisciplinary design optim; Integrated circuits, Very large scale integration; CAD-CAM - General; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Linear Programming; Technology / Electronics / Circuits / General
First sentence: An optimization problem is the task of minimizing (or maximizing - for definiteness we discuss minimization) a certain real-valued "objective functional" (or "cost", or "energy", or "performance index", etc.) E( ), possibly under a set of equality and/or inequality constraints, where = ( 1,..., n) is a vector (often the discretization of one or several functions) of unknown variables (real or complex numbers, and/or integers, and/or Ising spins, etc.).