Reply to the comments on originality of the paper, "The integrated scheduling and allocation of high-level test synthesis"

As many research works are based on some previous results, my paper, namely The Integrated Scheduling and Allocation of High-Level Test Synthesis, mak es use of some techniques by T. Kim. However, I did not state explicitly th at some parts of my work are based on Kim's approach although I have referr ed to his paper. I would like to express my deep apology to Kim for not hav ing emphasized Kim's contribution to my work. But my intention was not to s teal Kim's ideas. I would like to emphasize the following difference.