Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

Abstract: This paper presents a data-driven optimization method based on tree search-based reinforcement learning to solve strongly non-separable mixed-integer problems. With this method, some ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a new evolutionary partition based method to tackle complex combinatorial optimization problems, such as a class of scheduling problems with hard Q-time constraints. The ...

Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in bioarchitecture because the carbonized layer protects the wood from water, fire, insects ...

The Anne Arundel County Fire Department should hire additional staff members and rethink staffing methods to better meet national recommendations, according to a new report. The department is using a ...