Cleve Moler, Who Unlocked the Power of Computing for Millions, Dies at 86

He built interfaces that allowed engineers, scientists and everyday people to solve difficult problems without having to ...
IEEE

Redundancy Allocation for Series-Parallel Systems Using Integer Linear Programming

Abstract: We consider the problem of maximizing the reliability of a series-parallel system given cost and weight constraints on the system. The number of components in each subsystem, and the choice ...
Wired

Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...
Quanta Magazine

Researchers Discover the Optimal Way To Optimize

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...
IEEE

Resource Allocation Optimization Based on Mixed Integer Linear Programming in the Multi-Cloudlet Environment

Abstract: Cloudlet provides services with low latency and high bandwidth. Some research addresses the resource allocation problem in the cloudlet-based mobile cloud computing environment. However, ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Dantzig, G.B. (1951) Maximization of a Linear Function of Variables Subject to Linear Inequalities. In: Koopmans, T.C., Ed., Activity Analysis of Production and Allocation ...

ABSTRACT: This paper presents a new dimension reduction strategy for medium and large-scale linear programming problems. The proposed method uses a subset of the original constraints and combines two ...
SciTech Daily

AI Revolutionizes Complex Problem-Solving in Logistics and Beyond

Researchers from MIT and ETH Zurich have developed a machine learning-based technique to speed up the optimization process used by companies like FedEx for routing packages. This approach, which ...