A renaissance man is often described as someone accomplished across multiple disciplines, a person whose curiosity, expertise and service stretch well beyond a single field. Few fit this description ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

Abstract: Driven by an unprecedented surge in freight transportation and city logistics, this paper tackles a practical variant of the famous Vehicle Routing Problem that jointly accounts for the ...

ABSTRACT: Multi-objective optimization remains a significant and realistic problem in engineering. A trade-off among conflicting objectives subject to equality and inequality constraints is known as ...

Nearly a year after they signed off, the long-time partners of the “Rick & Bubba Show” are sharing different updates about their lives. Rick Burgess and Bill “Bubba” Bussey, the “two sexiest fat men” ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s also making changes to its recommendation system that could serve up more link-based posts. It’s also making ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the ...

This project aimed to implement three well-known meta-heuristic algorithms: cuckoo search (CS), bat algorithm (BA), and flower pollination algorithm (FPA). We found that three algorithms could have a ...

Identified and explained in detail the gaps and possible future works for improvement in two popular research papers that used heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms to solve multi-objective vehicle ...

A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care. By Reed Abelson and Teddy Rosenbluth Like millions ...