When designing new computer chips, engineers need to make various decisions about how to connect their underlying components ...

Some computing problems become difficult not because any individual calculation is particularly complicated, but because ...

The traveling salesman problem is considered a prime example of a combinatorial optimization problem. Now a Berlin team led by theoretical physicist Prof. Dr. Jens Eisert of Freie Universität Berlin ...

Toshiba Corporation has realized a major breakthrough in combinatorial optimization—the selection of the best solutions from among an enormous number of combinatorial patterns—with the development of ...

For executives and planners on the front lines of business, supply chain stability is not merely a logistics issue; it is a ...

Conventional quantum algorithms are not feasible for solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) with constraints in the operation time of quantum computers. To address this issue, researchers ...

In this graduate-level course, we will be covering advanced topics in combinatorial optimization. We will start with matchings and cover many results, extending the fundamental results of matchings, ...

Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more efficient approach for specific applications. The authors behind a recent paper ...