A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial ...

Optimization - Rowing and Running Problem: Maya is 2 km offshore on a boat and wishes to reach a coastal village which is 6 km down the straight shoreline from the point on the shore nearest to the ...

Prior efforts to develop hardware for optimization problems have involved Ising machines, a category of hardware solvers that incorporate the Ising model to find the absolute or approximate “ground ...

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 ...

Jeff Suzuki, The Lost Calculus (1637-1670): Tangency and Optimization without Limits, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 78, No. 5 (Dec., 2005), pp. 339-353 ...