Operating on other planets pushed NASA to rethink even the most basic technology. To handle extreme terrain, temperature swings, and vacuum conditions, engineers redesigned the wheel from the ground ...

Optimization problems often involve situations in which the user's goal is to minimize and/or maximize not a single objective function, but several, usually conflicting, functions simultaneously. Such ...

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Abstract: The modeling and optimization of wind farm layouts can effectively reduce the wake effect between turbine units, thereby enhancing the expected output power and avoiding negative influence.

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ABSTRACT: Multi-objective optimization remains a significant and realistic problem in engineering. A trade-off among conflicting objectives subject to equality and inequality constraints is known as ...

Captain America: Civil War not only changed the course of the entire MCU, but it set a new bar for superhero movies in general. Though, even with it's boundary pushing elements, Captain America: Civil ...

1 School of Management, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China 2 Institute of Mathematical Sciences ICMAT-CSIC, Madrid, Spain In the open capacitated location-routing ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - An Amazon web server outage that began just after 3 a.m., caused major internet problems across the globe for several hours Monday. The outage impacted many apps and websites; ...

Buildings and urban infrastructure are designed to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters, based on data from previous events. But how do you design a building to get through the extreme ...

Should we genetically modify wild lions? Of course not, might be your instant response. But what if lions were being wiped out by a devastating disease introduced by people? What if the genetic change ...