This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. In artificial intelligence (AI), a heuristic is a problem-solving approach that employs practical, experience-based strategies to find ...

“SQL on everything” is the tagline associated with Presto, the query engine that was initially developed by Facebook to rapidly analyze massive amounts of data — particularly data that lay scattered ...

We develop a novel framework, the implicit hitting set approach, for solving a class of combinatorial optimization problems. The explicit hitting set problem is as follows: given a set U and a family ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The capacitated network design problem is a multicommodity minimal cost network flow problem with fixed charges on the arcs and is well known ...