Submodular function optimisation has emerged as a cornerstone of contemporary algorithm design, offering a powerful framework to address a broad range of combinatorial problems characterised by the ...

This communication presents experimental research findings on the application of the flower pollination algorithm (FPA) and the African buffalo optimization (ABO) to implement the complex and fairly ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 44, No. 2 (1995), pp. 241-257 (17 pages) Much work has been published on the theoretical aspects of simulated annealing.

The optimization of the functions of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MOA), under China's State Council institutions reform plan, is an important step in improving capacity and ...