Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research shows how to implement simulated annealing for the Traveling Salesman Problem (find the best ordering of a set of discrete items). The goal of a combinatorial ...

What does a bee’s “waggle dance” have to do with planning optimal delivery routes? For those of us who came up with the answer “almost certainly nothing,” that might explain why we’re not the brains ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 98: Recent Developments in Practices and Research on Coastal Regions: Transportation, Environment and Economy (WINTER 2019), pp. 84-87 (4 pages) The ant ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover major developments in the retail industry. Walmart’s WMT Route Optimization is designed for businesses of all sizes. It ...

“A lot of times, I feel like an explorer,” says Jack Levis, UPS’s director of process management. “Often I’m telling the company: Just because we’ve done it this way for the past 50 years doesn’t mean ...

Christopher Savoie, Ph.D., is the CEO and founder of Zapata Computing. He is a published scholar in medicine, biochemistry and computer science. With ORION, UPS was trying to solve a riddle that has ...

Understand and implement the RMSProp optimization algorithm in Python. Essential for training deep neural networks ...