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How are Amazon's delivery routes determined? Breaking down mathematical optimization for management using the three elements of 'objective function, variables, and constraints'

Mathematical optimization is a technique for mathematically deriving an answer that maximizes or minimizes a desired goal (objective function) by adjusting controllable variables while satisfying ...
The Washington Post

Why Trump’s algae problem is much bigger than the Reflecting Pool

In his battle to clean the murky waters of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, President Donald Trump has tried draining, painting, hydrogen peroxide and what the Interior Department describes as ...
IEEE

Learning-Based Distributed MPC for Nonconvex Consensus Optimization With Collision Constraints

Abstract: This article presents a novel approach to learning-based distributed model predictive control (LDMPC) for nonconvex optimization problems which aims to enhance the distributed system’s ...
SciELO

Multi-Objective Task Scheduling for Earth Observation InSAR Satellites via Non-Dominated Sorting Student Psychology Based Optimization Algorithm

This paper investigates the task scheduling problem for the Earth observation Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) satellite system. The mission time window generation method is introduced ...
Nielsen

FAST has made linear TV cool again; personalization will make it cooler

In less than 20 years, streaming video has both transformed the TV landscape and created somewhat of a mirror image of what TV looked like before streaming arrived. Not only has advertising started to ...
IEEE

Stability Analysis of Constrained Distributed Nonlinear and Linear Kalman Filters for Dynamical Systems With State Constraints

Abstract: This article investigates the distributed nonlinear and linear Kalman filters for dynamical systems with state equality constraints via a sensor network, where each sensor estimates the ...