This book discusses new techniques for detecting, controlling, and exploiting the impacts of temperature variations on nanoscale circuits and systems. A new sensor system is described that can determine the temperature dependence as well as the operating temperature to improve system reliability. A new method is presented to control a circuit's temperature dependence by individually tuning pull-up and pull-down networks to their temperature-insensitive operating points. This method extends the range of supply voltages that can be made temperature-insensitive, achieving insensitivity at...
This book discusses new techniques for detecting, controlling, and exploiting the impacts of temperature variations on nanoscale circuits and syste...
Decision making (DM) is ubiquitous in both natural and artificial systems. The decisions made often differ from those recommended by the axiomatically well-grounded normative Bayesian decision theory, in a large part due to limited cognitive and computational resources of decision makers (either artificial units or humans). This state of a airs is often described by saying that decision makers are imperfect and exhibit bounded rationality. The neglected influence of emotional state and personality traits is an additional reason why normative theory fails to model human DM process.
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Decision making (DM) is ubiquitous in both natural and artificial systems. The decisions made often differ from those recommended by the axiomatica...
Many complex systems found in nature can be viewed as function optimizers. In particular, they can be viewed as such optimizers of functions in extremely high- dimensional spaces. Given the difficulty of performing such high-dimensional op- timization with modern computers, there has been a lot of exploration of computa- tional algorithms that try to emulate those naturally-occurring function optimizers. Examples include simulated annealing (SA 15,18]), genetic algorithms (GAs) and evolutionary computation 2,3,9,11,20-22,24,28]. The ultimate goal of this work is an algorithm that can, for...
Many complex systems found in nature can be viewed as function optimizers. In particular, they can be viewed as such optimizers of functions in extrem...
Despite the high level of maturity now attained in prescriptive Bayesian decision making, real decision makers choose such Bayes-optimal solutions surprisingly infrequently. This book shows how these imperfections could be coped with in real life.
Despite the high level of maturity now attained in prescriptive Bayesian decision making, real decision makers choose such Bayes-optimal solutions sur...
