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 ...

We investigate a variant of the vehicle routing-allocation problem that arises in the distribution of pallets of goods by a food bank to a network of relatively distant nonprofit organizations.

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 ...