In a conversation with his friends in Bostan, Alex realized that dried fruit is going to be expensive. So he took his basket and went to the grocery store. His son came to help him to buy the basket ...

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Three Opinion writers break down the former vice president’s book of excuses. By Michelle Cottle Carlos Lozada and Lydia Polgreen Produced by Vishakha Darbha Three Opinion writers weigh in on Kamala ...

Abstract: The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most common problems in logistics and supply chain. In this study, we propose a hybrid greedy algorithm for the capacitated vehicle routing ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UCF chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. Despite last month’s short-lived TikTok ban, the social media app is still ...

Abstract: An iterated greedy algorithm (IGA) is a simple and powerful heuristic algorithm. It is widely used to solve flow-shop scheduling problems (FSPs), an important branch of production scheduling ...