Abstract: The Branch-and-Bound(B&B) algorithm is an effective method for solving the Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem. Its performance significantly impacts the overall performance of ...

Everyone should care about privacy and security of their communications - innocuous conversations can put you in danger even if there is nothing to hide. One of the most shocking stories is the ...

Abstract: A novel, tuning-free, population-based simplex method for continuous function optimization is proposed. The proposed method, called Adaptive Population-based Simplex (APS), uses a population ...