News tagged with optimization algorithm

Imec implements multi-mode digital TV receiver on reconfigurable processor with record area efficiency

Imec developed a reconfigurable receiver for highly diversified digital video broadcasting standards (DVB-T, ISDB-T and ATSC). The receiver is realized using algorithm-architecture co-optimization of imec’s reconfigurable ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tracking groundwater pollution to its source

Computer algorithms might be useful in identifying sources of groundwater pollution, according to researchers in Australia and India. Writing in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management they explain how no ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blekko, Montage offer new ways to search the Web

Internet search engines have become such a helpful fixture of everyday life that it's tough to imagine life before them. They gather information at eye-blink speed, can guess a user's intent and present real-time results ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new computer simulator allows to design military strategies based on ants' movements

A researcher of the University of Granada, Spain, has designed a new system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield based on the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move using a commercial ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Relocation, relocation, relocation: Math could address climate change population concerns

As sea levels rise in the wake of climate change and semi-arid regions turn to desert, people living in those parts of the world are likely to be displaced. A mathematical approach to planned relocation reported in the International Jo ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1