Abstract: An iterated greedy algorithm (IGA) is a simple and powerful heuristic algorithm. It is widely used to solve flow-shop scheduling problems (FSPs), an important branch of production scheduling ...

TACO (Topics in Algorithmic COde generation dataset) is a dataset focused on algorithmic code generation, designed to provide a more challenging training dataset and evaluation benchmark for the code ...

Hash tables are one of the oldest and simplest data structures for storing elements and supporting deletions and queries. Invented in 1953, they underly most computational systems. Yet despite their ...

Blocking is a canonical technique that groups records into blocks based on some key so that only items within the same block are compared. Effective blocking dramatically cuts comparisons while still ...

The soil ecosystem has been severely damaged because of the increasingly severe environmental problems caused by excessive application of phosphorus (P) fertilizer, which seriously hinders soil ...

Abstract: The integration of intermittent and stochastic renewable energy resources requires increased flexibility in the operation of the electric grid. Storage, broadly speaking, provides the ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

1 College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. 2 University of Birmingham Joint Institute, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Text classification is an essential ...