The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

Researchers have developed an adaptive ant colony system that combines four heuristic strategies, a roulette-based ranking ...

Computer scientists have written a network flow algorithm that computes almost as fast as is mathematically possible. This algorithm computes the maximum traffic flow with minimum transport costs for ...

Quantum computing offers the hope of dramatic increases in computational capabilities. That’s the promise of quantum computers that can handle hundreds of thousands or millions of quantum bits or ...

Researchers have enhanced a manta ray-inspired optimization algorithm with chaotic switching factors and dynamic penalty functions, achieving lower costs and emissions than rival methods on combined ...