New test certifies quantum measurements that simpler methods cannot mimic

Proving that one quantum measurement is more powerful than another has long been difficult. Physicists from Heinrich Heine ...
New Scientist

The sneaky maths trick for solving problems without answering them

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...
New Scientist

Peter Shor’s algorithm could break the internet – but he's not worried

Few people have invented an algorithm with the potential to spark a worldwide crisis, so why is quantum computing pioneer ...
IEEE

On the Use of the Nelder-Mead Simplex Method in Control Design and Systems Theory

Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.
SciELO

Accelerating benders decomposition with heuristicmaster problem solutions

I Universidade de São Paulo, Av. do Trab. São Carlense, 400, CP 668, São Carlos, Brazil. E-mail: alysson@icmc.usp.b II CIRRELT and HEC Montréal, Montréal H3T 2A7, Canada. E-mails: ...
IEEE

A Convex Analysis-Based Minimum-Volume Enclosing Simplex Algorithm for Hyperspectral Unmixing

Abstract: Hyperspectral unmixing aims at identifying the hidden spectral signatures (or endmembers) and their corresponding proportions (or abundances) from an observed hyperspectral scene. Many ...
Frontiers

Accelerated non-negative tensor completion via integer programming

The problem of tensor completion has applications in healthcare, computer vision, and other domains. However, past approaches to tensor completion have faced a tension in that they either have ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Incessant Allocation Method for Solving Transportation Problems ()

Industries require planning in transporting their products from production centres to the users end with minimal transporting cost to maximize profit. This process is known as Transportation Problem ...