1 Table of Contents: “... der Optik für die Rechentechnik -- 2.1 Grundlagen der VLSI-Technik -- 2.2 Grundlagen des CMOS...”

2 Table of Contents: “... Interior Point Methods for Global Optimization -- 13 Interior Point Approaches for the VLSI Placement...”

3 Table of Contents: “...Multiscale Optimization in VLSI Physical Design Automation -- A Distributed Method for Solving...”

4 “... of real-world systems. Some of its applications are allocation and location problems and VLSI and data...”

5 “... Processing, and VLSI are dealt to make the readers understand where the concept can be applied...”

6 “..., manufacturing, VLSI design, statistical data analysis, and parallel and distributed computing. Secondly, a...”

7 “... computationally hard problems arising in real world applications, such as floorplanning in VLSI designs...”

8 “... biology, VLSI design, communications networks, and management science. An international team of 30-40...”

9 Table of Contents: “... Algorithms for the Set Covering Problem -- A VLSI Multiplication-and-Add Scheme Based on Swarm Intelligence...”

10 “...Applications include VLSI layout design, systems biology, wireless network design, mean-risk...”

11 Table of Contents: “... and punctuated equilibria in VLSI -- Implementing the genetic algorithm on transputer based parallel processing...”

12 Table of Contents: “... Multiplication -- The Min-Max Voronoi Diagram of Polygons and Applications in VLSI Manufacturing -- Session 8B...”