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Researchers discover a smarter way to solve vehicle routing problems using adaptive swarm learning

Combinatorial optimization problems are often encountered in real-world applications, including logistics, scheduling and ...

Black-box optimization weather intervention method supports future disaster mitigation

In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...
IEEE

Constrained Evolutionary Bayesian Optimization for Expensive Constrained Optimization Problems With Inequality Constraints

Abstract: This article proposes a constrained evolutionary Bayesian optimization (CEBO) algorithm to cope with expensive constrained optimization problems with inequality constraints. The uniqueness ...
IEEE

Solving Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization via Learning to Improve Method

Abstract: Recently, neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) methods have been prevailing for solving multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems (MOCOPs). Most NCO methods are based on the ...
NPR

Bumblebees have tiny brains but they can solve problems like chimps and elephants

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...