“…(a) manufacturing [9,26,27,33,83,101]; (b) transportation [21,25,48,136]; (c) telecommunications [13,15,40,81,93,110,114,137]; (d) graph and map drawing [58,59,88,94,118]; (e) power systems [30,31,46]; (f) computational biology [54,70,77]; (g) VLSI [18,19], among other areas of application.…”