The traveling salesman problem is considered a prime example of a combinatorial optimization problem. Now a Berlin team led by theoretical physicist Prof. Dr. Jens Eisert of Freie Universität Berlin ...

Quantum computing is coming along faster than most realize. Multiple companies are developing several exciting technologies, ...

Optimization problems as a research area encompass the theoretical and algorithmic study of selecting the best solution from a feasible set according to one or more objective functions, under possibly ...

You make decisions every day. Some are big, and some are small. But even the small decisions involve a great deal of complexity. Let me show you what I mean. Take something you probably do regularly: ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research uses full code samples to detail an evolutionary algorithm technique that apparently hasn't been published before. The goal of a combinatorial optimization ...