We investigate a variant of the vehicle routing-allocation problem that arises in the distribution of pallets of goods by a food bank to a network of relatively distant nonprofit organizations.

Jim moderated the network and application optimization track at Network World’s IT Roadmap seminar in San Francisco at the end of last month. Four leading vendors in that technology space also gave ...

A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial optimization problems. These are common in real-world applications such as ...

Transportation Science, Vol. 49, No. 2 (May 2015), pp. 402-419 (18 pages) We study a real-world distribution problem arising in the automotive field in which cars, trucks, and other vehicles have to ...

Research teams from energy giant ExxonMobil and IBM have been working together to find quantum solutions to one of the most complex problems of our time: managing the tens of thousands of merchant ...

Great progress has been made in the past few years in our understanding of nonconvex optimizations. In this talk, I will share with you three of our works in this direction. In one, we study low-rank ...

SoftBank has turned to quantum computing in a bid to improve radio access network (RAN) performance by optimizing its base station settings. During tests in Tokyo, the Japanese giant employed an Ising ...

WILMINGTON, Del., July 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH) today provided an update on its $60 million manufacturing network optimization plan, a key initiative under its "execute" ...