Macro-modeling is important to protect intellectual property (IP) for manufacturers. With the current and growing complexity of modern electronics circuitry, algorithms that enable accurate and fast simulation are desirable. ...

In the past, many catastrophic failures have occurred due to lack of redundancy and managerial oversight. For example, it was found that local failures due to improper welds that connected the suspended truss to the anchor ...

Structural optimization methods have been developed and applied to a variety of engineering practices. This study aims to overcome technical challenges in applying design and topology optimization techniques to large-scale ...

As hardware performance and dependability have dramatically improved in the past few decades, the software dependability issues are becoming increasingly important. Unfortunately, many studies show that software bugs, which ...

In this thesis, we present a framework for supporting design evolution. We describe a uniform way to define the semantics of object change operators, present a set of change operators that call be used to manage and control ...

The era of the internet-of-things (IOT) is expanding the utilization of mobile and cloud computing to a global scale. The enormous data transport places a huge design overhead in building low-cost, low-power, low-error-rate ...