Three heads are better than one. Versions of this proverb are found worldwide and throughout history. Yet in the race to ...

Studying the epic journey of the iconic jumping plumber can lead to new insights in theoretical computer science—and may help researchers understand the tractability of problems in other areas.

Abstract: Meta-heuristic algorithms, especially evolutionary algorithms, have been frequently used to find near optimal solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. The evaluation of such ...

Abstract: The economic dispatch problem (EDP) is the solid rock to guarantee the stable operation of power systems, which is essentially an optimization problem, i.e., dispatching generators to meet ...