Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of complete coverage task allocation for a heterogeneous robot team operating in a mapped workarea like an indoor building. The robots in the team have ...

Across the U.S., many parents are breathing a collective sigh of relief: school is back in session. Sitting in her trailer home in rural southern Maryland, a woman who asks to go by her first initial, ...

The US Open is going where no Grand Slam has ever gone before with a reimagined mixed doubles competition, turning an event which had become mostly an afterthought at tennis majors into a two-day ...

U.S. Open Fan Week, the weeklong, pre-Grand Slam bonanza that the USTA has built into a tentpole in recent years, has arrived for 2025. With it comes the governing body’s latest effort toward its ...

Ever since Memphis Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant debuted his third signature sneaker in the 2025 NBA Playoffs, athletes and fans have clamored to get their hands on the new model. The Nike Ja 3 ...

This project uses ordinal optimization for computationally efficient sizing of a hybrid energy system containing PV panels, batteries, diesel generators, and an intermittent grid. It also utilizes ...

The global optimization of integer and mixed integer non-linear problems has a lot of applications in engineering. In this paper a heuristic algorithm is developed using line-up competition and ...

Abstract: The algorithms and software tools for solving large-scale NP-hard MILP (mixed-integer linear programming) problems are analyzed, specifically focusing on the modeling of electric power ...

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