Got some old record albums gathering dust on a shelf? A new North Texas pilot program aims to give new life to old vinyl LPs. VMB Micro LLC recently received a $100,000 grant from the Vinyl Institute ...

Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.

For the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) aimed at minimizing makespan, an Improved Sparrow Search Algorithm (ISSA) is proposed. Firstly, a dual-segment encoding approach of equal length is ...