The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get ...

Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of chatbots. By Siobhan Roberts The words “optimal” and “optimize” derive from the ...

Over the course of my 25-year career in the mathematical optimization software industry, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked this question: “Can you tell me what mathematical ...

It remains an open question when a commercial quantum computer will emerge that can outperform classical (non-quantum) ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

This course examines formulation and solution of applicable optimization models, including linear, integer, nonlinear, and network problems, efficient algorithm methods, and use of computer modeling ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...

Quantum computers have already managed to surpass ordinary computers in solving certain tasks - unfortunately, totally useless ones. The next milestone is to get them to do useful things. Researchers ...

Shot-selection is a lot like parking a car on a crowded street — do you take what’s there or look for a better option? Which teams are solving this “optimal stopping problem”? There’s not a lot to ...

We walk through an optimization problem step by step, clearly explaining how to identify variables, set up the correct ...