Ok, now that I know your focus, I basically just used my fast googling technique and searched through recent archives to see if anything popped up. Here&#x27;s various things in hardware, software, and architecture benefiting from SO to learn from or improve on in your own work.<p>Really detailed write-up of how cells can be modeled and transformed with stochastic tie in
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eecs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;~keutzer&#x2F;classes&#x2F;244fa2004&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;3-1-partition.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eecs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;~keutzer&#x2F;classes&#x2F;244fa2004&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;...</a><p>Parallel, stochastic, FGPA placement with great speedup
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eecg.utoronto.ca&#x2F;~vaughn&#x2F;papers&#x2F;fccm2014_parallel_place.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eecg.utoronto.ca&#x2F;~vaughn&#x2F;papers&#x2F;fccm2014_parallel...</a><p>Multi-optimization scheme for nanometer
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repositories.lib.utexas.edu&#x2F;handle&#x2F;2152&#x2F;3688" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;repositories.lib.utexas.edu&#x2F;handle&#x2F;2152&#x2F;3688</a><p>Note: This does <i>not</i> do stochastic I don&#x27;t think but a number of other methods. It&#x27;s significant because it specifically mentions modern, typically large, designs avoid stochastic optimization for global issues because it&#x27;s cost-prohibitive compared to geometric methods. That might have significant implications outside EDA, too. Might only be good for local optimizations that are tied together some other way.<p>Synthesis and control of system design for industrial project (software)
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scielo.org.ar&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;laar&#x2F;v40n2&#x2F;v40n2a07.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.scielo.org.ar&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;laar&#x2F;v40n2&#x2F;v40n2a07.pdf</a><p>RTL verification by minimizing multiway decision graphs (2006)
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download;jsessionid=D9E92C9F833CED1CDC02512ACBABDADB?doi=10.1.1.495.3582&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;citeseerx.ist.psu.edu&#x2F;viewdoc&#x2F;download;jsessionid=D9E...</a><p>Use in clock-tree synthesis for multi-FPGA&#x27;s with focus on thermal properties
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thescipub.com&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;ajassp.2013.1604.1615.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thescipub.com&#x2F;PDF&#x2F;ajassp.2013.1604.1615.pdf</a><p>Synthesis of high-performance analog circuits (1996)
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~rutenbar&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;rutenbar-aotcad96.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;users.ece.cmu.edu&#x2F;~rutenbar&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;rutenbar-aotcad96.pd...</a><p>System levle hardware and software partitioning with simulated annealing and tabu search
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gstitt.ece.ufl.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;fall08&#x2F;eel4930_5934&#x2F;reading&#x2F;tabu.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gstitt.ece.ufl.edu&#x2F;courses&#x2F;fall08&#x2F;eel4930_5934&#x2F;re...</a><p>Simulated annealing for aiding genetic algorithms in software architecture synthesis
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sis.uta.fi&#x2F;~tp54752&#x2F;pub&#x2F;sa&#x2F;SA_aiding_GA_acta.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sis.uta.fi&#x2F;~tp54752&#x2F;pub&#x2F;sa&#x2F;SA_aiding_GA_acta.pdf</a><p>Synthesize implementations of hard real-time stuff
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;BF00872288?no-access=true" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;link.springer.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;10.1007&#x2F;BF00872288?no-acces...</a><p>Humie awards from Genetic Programming. Most of these could probably be ported to Stochastic Optimization in general.
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.genetic-programming.org&#x2F;combined.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.genetic-programming.org&#x2F;combined.html</a><p>Accelerate floating point problems
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;~sharmar&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;fp.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;~sharmar&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;fp.pdf</a><p>Stochastic super-optimization of loop-free binaries
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;~sharmar&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;asplos291-schkufza.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.stanford.edu&#x2F;~sharmar&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;asplos291-schkufza.pd...</a><p>Note: I&#x27;m keeping that one for sure. :)