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 proposed algorithm combines variational scheduling with post-processing to achieve near-optimal solutions to combinatorial optimization problems with constraints within the operation time of ...

Lei Jia of Beijing Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency considers whether there is a need to separately determine whether the algorithm includes ‘technical features’ in the revised guidelines for ...