An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).

“We live in a nonlinear world,” said Dr. Oliver Bastert, vice president of product management for FICO Platform. “That means clear, consistent, ‘linear’ relationships between variables don’t always ...

The traveling salesman problem is considered a prime example of a combinatorial optimization problem. Now a Berlin team led by theoretical physicist Prof. Dr. Jens Eisert of Freie Universität Berlin ...

Researchers have developed a new, data-driven machine-learning technique that speeds up software programs used to solve complex optimization problems that can have millions of potential solutions.

There are, generally speaking, two types of people in the mathematical optimization software field: • Optimization solver developers: The technical experts who devise and implement the algorithms that ...

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gurobi Optimization, LLC today announced the release of Gurobi 9.0, the latest version of its industry-leading mathematical programming solver. Gurobi 9.0 delivers ...

Quantum computing has entered a bit of an awkward period. There have been clear demonstrations that we can successfully run quantum algorithms, but the qubit counts ...