Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Adaptive Algorithm Aims to Reduce Kidney Discards and Improve Transplant Access

Developed by Professor Sanjay Mehrotra, the Sliding Scale AdaptiVe Expedited (SAVE) algorithm could improve organ allocation ...

First Robodebt, now NDIS and aged care: how computers still decide who gets care

Computers promise to replace fallible human judgement with something more consistent, efficient and fair. But this isn’t ...

World's largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems now available to everyone

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...
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Black-Box Optimization of the Storage Location Assignment Problem in Logistics Centers Using an Annealing Algorithm

Abstract: The manufacturing industry encounters numerous optimization problems, one of which is the optimization of storage location assignment (OSLA) problem in logistics. OSLA is a combinatorial ...
IEEE

An Exact Greedy Algorithm for Energy Storage Self-Scheduling Problem Based on Power Decomposition

Abstract: The energy storage self-scheduling (ESSS) problem is typically formulated as a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) or quadratically constrained programming (QCP) model, reflecting the ...