IEEE

An Efficient Branch-and-Bound Routing Optimization Method for Optical NoCs

Abstract: Silicon photonics-based optical networks-on-chip (ONoCs) are emerging as a power-efficient on-chip communication architecture for the next generation of chip multiprocessors. However, the ...
C&EN

Coordinate Problem Cracking by Using Only the Reactant Jacobi Coordinates: A New Quantum Wave Packet Method for Product State-Resolved Reactive Scattering Calculations

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, People's Republic of China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China ...
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World's toughest gardening job? 300-year-old hedges trimmed using cherry picker

Workers have begun the 'world's toughest gardening job' by using a cherry picker to painstakingly trim the 300-year-old hedges at a historic castle. Brave gardener Dan Bull will spend the next two ...
Nature

US serial killer case opens door to using cutting-edge DNA data in courts

A judge in New York rejected a request on 23 September to disqualify the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing as evidence in a case against an alleged serial killer. The ruling paves the way for a type ...
Bleeping Computer

CISA says hackers breached federal agency using GeoServer exploit

CISA has revealed that attackers breached the network of an unnamed U.S. federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agency last year after compromising an unpatched GeoServer instance. While the ...
IEEE

A Parallel Branch and Bound Algorithm for a Rolling Stock Cyclic Job Scheduling Problem to Minimize the Total Maintenance Cost

Abstract: In this paper, we analyse an industry driven problem of a rolling stock cyclic job scheduling problem to minimize the total cost of preventive maintenance activities. We model it as a cyclic ...