We present a probabilistic greedy search method for combinatorial optimisation problems. This approach is implemented and evaluated for the Set Covering Problem (SCP) and shown to yield a simple, ...

The phenomenal success of our integrated circuits managed to obscure an awkward fact: they're not always the best way to solve problems. The features of modern computers—binary operations, separated ...

In the flow shop weighted completion time problem, a set of jobs has to be processed on m machines. Every machine has to process each one of the jobs, and every job has the same routing through the ...

Learn how prior probability informs economic theory and decision-making in Bayesian statistics. Understand its role before collecting new data.

When flipping a coin, the probability of getting heads and the probability of getting tails are theoretically equal to 1/2. Here, when assuming a 'biased coin' where the probability of getting heads ...

It is a curious quirk of the age that, when confronted with the outputs of large language models or predictive systems, we slip into the language of personality. We say “the AI thinks”, “it refuses to ...