Layout design is an important research topic in the field of manufacturing system. In traditional manufacturing systems, the initial layout design is rarely changed. However, with the increasingly ...

Optimization can be easily found in our daily life, almost everywhere and with many applications. Choosing the shortest path from home to office or working place, with the purpose of spending less ...

When giant blobs began appearing on city skylines around the world in the late 1980s and 1990s, it marked not an alien invasion but the impact of computers on the practice of building design. Thanks ...

Governments use algorithms to select, advise or profile citizens, and to assess risks. But how do you know whether such an ...

The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called “the melting pot” – the dissolution of different cultures into an American soup. An update for the 2020s might be “open source,” where cultural ...

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. “The Algorithm” is impenetrable. It’s mysterious, it’s all-knowing, it’s ...