Software patents and their potential impact on the EDA community (panel)

Previous research has documented the legal and economic aspects of software patents. To study the evolution in the granting of software patents we reproduced and extended part of the empirical study on software patents conducted by Bessen and Hunt. The ...

Differential evolution (DE) was very successful in solving the global continuous optimization problem. It mainly uses the distance and direction information from the current population to guide its further search. Estimation of distribution algorithm (...

The concern that has been expressed in the computer industry about software patents is examined. Programmers fear that patents will be granted that monopolize basic concepts (such as pull-down windows or the use of menu bars) or algorithms that ...