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 ...

Researchers hope that a better understanding of which genes contribute to excess weight could help with prevention starting in childhood. By Gina Kolata Researchers have known for decades that ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

A Python implementation of a branch-and-bound approach (plus a simple greedy heuristic) to solve a variation of the multiple knapsack problem where items have both individual and pairwise benefits.

Right now, quantum computers are small and error-prone compared to where they’ll likely be in a few years. Even within those limitations, however, there have been regular claims that the hardware can ...

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Institute of Logistics Science and Engineering of Shanghai Maritime University, Pudong, China Introduction: This study addresses the joint scheduling optimization of continuous berths and quay cranes ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. We present an artificial intelligence-guided approach to design durable and chemically ...

Abstract: The genetic algorithms are a well-known family of high-performance probabilistic algorithms. In this paper, we explore the possibility of using the genetic algorithm for the Knapsack problem ...