Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

Combinatorial problems abound in domains such as scheduling, routing, resource allocation and logical inference. Owing to their typically NP-hard nature, no single algorithm uniformly outperforms all ...

Brain storm optimization (BSO) is an evolutionary computation technique inspired by collective human ideation processes, in which candidate solutions are treated as “ideas” that cluster and evolve in ...