Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products of a user interface configured for automated generation and optimization of floorplan designs. One method may include automatically generating a plurality of floorplans. At least one of the room's corner offsets is determined after at least one other room's position has been determined. The method further includes scoring a plurality of generated floorplans according to a scoring function; calculating, for at least one generated floorplan, whether it has a path with width at least as large as a number from a door of the respective generated floorplan to an exit; displaying, in an interactive computerized user interface, a subset of the generated plurality of floorplans that has been selected based on the scores of the floorplans; and based upon input from the interactive computerized user interface, transmitting at least one of the generated plurality of floorplans.

Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products of a user interface configured for automated generation and optimization of room layout designs. One method may include determining a relative position token for each of a plurality of elements according to a function of at least one relative position token of at least one other element. Each relative position token comprises at least one discrete non-Cartesian value of each of the elements. The method further comprises determining a Cartesian position for each of a plurality of elements according to a function of at least one of the relative position tokens to generate a room layout; displaying, in an interactive computerized user interface, at least one generated room layout; and based upon input from the interactive computerized user interface, transmitting at least one of the generated plurality of room layouts and a request for a selection of the transmitted room layouts.

Abstract: An optical component fabricated from a semi-conductor wafer in which the epilayers are in the InCaAsP system comprises a pair of ridge waveguides. The ridge waveguides are proximate and parallel to each other in a first region, and diverge from each other in a second region. Each waveguide has a continuous electric contact over its upper surface to provide a first light amplification zone through or beneath at least a portion of both first and second light guiding paths and a second light amplification zone through or beneath at least a portion of both the first and a third light guiding path. The component can be used as a low loss 1.times.2 switch, or as a low loss 2.times.1 combiner.