Understanding problems tougher than solving them, mobile game experiment shows

Physicist Albert Einstein famously posited that if he only had an hour to crack a daunting problem, he'd devote 55 minutes to ...

Mathematical model guides allocation of funds and resources for protecting fragile ecosystems

QUT researchers have developed a pioneering mathematical framework to help "pick winners" and maximize limited funding and ...
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Tampa General gets big results with OR optimization platform

In just 10 months, the analytics initiative helped the hospital rack up nearly 700 hours of productivity saved for clinicians, nurses, administrators and staff. It's also fostered safer surgical ...
IEEE

A Combined Diffusion Model and Reinforcement Learning Approach for Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem With Multiple Soft Time Windows

Abstract: The Vehicle Routing Problem with Multiple Soft Time Windows (VRPMSTW) is a challenging combinatorial optimization problem where a fleet of vehicles must deliver goods to a set of customers, ...
IEEE

Reinforcement Learning for Solving Colored Traveling Salesman Problems: An Entropy-Insensitive Attention Approach

Abstract: The utilization of neural network models for solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) has gained significant attention in recent years and has demonstrated encouraging outcomes in ...