Artificial reinforcement learning is just one lens to evaluate organizations. However, this thought experiment taught me that ...

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 ...

We study the greedy (exploitation-only) algorithm in bandit problems with a known reward structure. We allow arbitrary finite reward structures, while prior work focused on a few specific ones. We ...

Institute of Logistics Science and Engineering of Shanghai Maritime University, Pudong, China Introduction: This study addresses the joint scheduling optimization of continuous berths and quay cranes ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...

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 ...

Abstract: The distributed hybrid flowshop scheduling problems (DHFSPs) widely exist in various industrial production processes, and thus have received widespread attention. However, the existing ...

Why high-salary jobs with long, inflexible hours exacerbate the gender pay gap — and what to do about it. by Gretchen Gavett Long, inflexible work hours are often the norm in high-pressure, ...