Released into the wild decades ago, Florida’s giant pythons have multiplied into an unstoppable force, devouring native wildlife and collapsing fragile ecosystems. Officials in Massachusetts respond ...

The giant bins were filled with dead pigs, cats and cane toads as part of an annual culling event in Weipa. Source: Mark Bevan In Weipa, a coastal mining town about 800km northwest of Cairns, almost ...

Florida faces a growing problem with Burmese pythons, as more than 23,000 of these non-native snakes have been removed from the state since 2000, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 69, No. 3 (MARCH 2018), pp. 402-415 (14 pages) This paper presents a heuristic for the guillotine two-dimensional bin packing problem, where a set ...

Remote-controlled robot rabbits are being deployed to help tackle Florida’s invasive python problem. The Burmese python threatens the ecosystem of the Everglades by preying on wildlife, including ...

Code implementation of "Learning Efficient Online 3D Bin Packing on Packing Configuration Trees". We propose to enhance the practical applicability of online 3D Bin Packing Problem (BPP) via learning ...

Abstract: The Online Bin Packing Problem (OBPP) aims to determine the optimal loading position for each incoming item to maximize bin utilization, a critical challenge in various industrial ...

Florida’s Burmese python problem isn’t going away anytime soon. The researchers, snake trackers, and other conservationists working to remove the giant snakes will be the first to tell you that ...

Editor's note: This story originally published in 2024. Python hunter Bayo Hernandez prefers his snake ground up like hamburger meat with ketchup, mustard, and mayo. Another hunter fancies the ...