Simulated annealing (SA) attracts more attention among classical heuristic algorithms because many combinatorial optimization problems can be easily recast as the ground state search problem of the ...

If you haven't yet bought a Christmas tree yet, you may have left it a bit late. But don't despair: there's still time to print one. And a new 3D printer algorithm that claims to provide ...

The Irish philosopher George Berkely, best known for his theory of immaterialism, once famously mused, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" What about ...

The Tree-Seed Algorithm (TSA) is a bioinspired metaheuristic designed for continuous optimisation, modelling each candidate solution as a tree that generates seeds to explore the search space. Its ...

The last time anyone counted, there were 700,000 street trees in the city of Los Angeles. That was more than two decades ago. Now, after four years of punishing drought, the city badly needs a fix on ...