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

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 ...

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 ...