Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that compute shortest paths through vast networks. Now imagine scaling that task ...

Abstract: This study addresses a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) with customer priorities. In the variant, we assume the hard priority constraint where customers should be served in a ...

Abstract: The energy storage self-scheduling (ESSS) problem is typically formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) or quadratically constrained programming (QCP) model, reflecting the ...

What class of problems does it solve? You have an optimization problem: maximize or minimize some objective subject to constraints. The brute-force approach — try all combinations — is exponential.