Many real-world problems such as industrial production planning 1,2, traffic signal control 3,4, military strategic decision-making 5,6 and energy management of hybrid electric vehicles 7 can be ...

Design issues are fundamentally optimization problems requiring appropriate optimization methods and algorithms. The increasing complexity of modern design challenges has rendered traditional ...

The rise of AI, graphic processing, combinatorial optimization and other data-intensive applications has resulted in data-processing bottlenecks, as ever greater amounts of data must be shuttled back ...