Multiscale Optimization in VLSI Physical Design Automation
Tony F. Chan, Jason Cong, Joseph R. Shinnerl, Kenton Sze, Min Xie,
Yan Zhang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A Distributed Method for Solving Semidefinite Programs
Arising from Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Network Localization
Pratik Biswas, Yinyu Ye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Optimization Algorithms for Sparse Representations and
Applications
Pando G. Georgiev, Fabian Theis, Andrzej Cichocki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
A Unified Framework for Modeling and Solving Combinatorial
Optimization Problems: A Tutorial
Gary A. Kochenberger, Fred Glover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Global Convergence of a Non-monotone Trust-Region Filter
Algorithm for Nonlinear Programming
Nicholas I. M. Gould, Philippe L. Toint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Factors Affecting the Performance of Optimization-based
Multigrid Methods
Robert Michael Lewis, Stephen G. Nash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
A Local Relaxation Method for Nonlinear Facility Location
Problems
Walter Murray, Uday V. Shanbhag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Fluence Map Optimization in IMRT Cancer Treatment
Planning and A Geometric Approach
Yin Zhang, Michael Merritt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
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Panoramic Image Processing using Non-Commutative
Harmonic Analysis Part I: Investigation
Amal Aafif, Robert Boyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Generating Geometric Models through Self-Organizing Maps
Jung-ha An, Yunmei Chen, Myron N. Chang, David Wilson, Edward
Geiser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Self-similar Solution of Unsteady Mixed Convection Flow on
a Rotating Cone in a Rotating Fluid
Devarapu Anilkumar, Satyajit Roy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Homogenization of a Nonlinear Elliptic Boundary Value
Problem Modelling Galvanic Interactions on a Heterogeneous
Surface
Y.S. Bhat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
A Simple Mathematical Approach for Determining
Intersection of Quadratic Surfaces
Ken Chan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Applications of Shape-Distance Metric to Clustering
Shape-Databases
Shantanu H. Joshi, Anuj Srivastava . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Accurately Computing the Shape of Sandpiles
Christopher M. Kuster, Pierre A. Gremaud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Shape Optimization of Transfer Functions
Jiawang Nie, James W. Demmel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Achieving Wide Field of View Using Double-Mirror
Catadioptric Sensors
Ronald Perline, Emek K¨ose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Darcy Flow, Multigrid, and Upscaling
James M. Rath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Iterated Adaptive Regularization for the Operator Equations
of the First Kind
Yanfei Wang, Qinghua Ma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Recover Multi-tensor Structure from HARD MRI Under
Bi-Gaussian Assumption
Qingguo Zeng, Yunmei Chen, Weihong Guo, Yijun Liu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
PACBB: A Projected Adaptive Cyclic Barzilai-Borwein
Method for Box Constrained Optimization
Hongchao Zhang, William W. Hager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
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Nonrigid Correspondence and Classification of Curves Based
on More Desirable Properties
Xiqiang Zheng, Yunmei Chen, David Groisser, David Wilson . . . . . . . . . . 393
