<p><a href="http://www.cs.duke.edu/~bsayan/">Sayan Bhattacharya</a><br />
Duke University<br />
Department of Computer Science<br />
N303, North Building<br />
304 Research Drive<br />
Durham, NC 27708<br />
United States of America</p>
<p>Pinaki Mazumder<br />
University of Michigan<br />
Department of Electrical Engineering<br />
and Computer Science<br />
2260 Howard Avenue<br />
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121<br />
United States of America</p>
Conventional shrinking methods to improve VLSI chip performance by continual scaling of device and interconnect geometries may allow CMOS juggernaut to reach about 22 nm nodes.
Diverse engineering functions can be generated when simple modules are connected in different configurations. Similar modules also exist in biology, for example, within circuits of interacting molecules that map to diverse cellular behavior.
Insurance transfers losses associated with risks to the insurer for a price, the premium. We adopt the collective risk approach. Namely, we abstract the problem to include just two agents: the insured and the insurer.
Recent years have seen significant progress on the algorithmic aspects of the Lovasz Local Lemma: e.g., one can now handle super-polynomially many events that need to be avoided.