Rolling stock scheduling and crew scheduling are two fundamental problems that arise in the planning of urban rail operations and that are especially importa...

Large-scale distributed wireless networks provide infrastructure-free and cost-effective connectivity, supporting applications from disaster recovery to glob...

A shift toward shopping at (autonomous) wheeled vending stores is redefining urban retail. Compared with traditional brick-and-mortar stores, such mobile sto...

Chemical graphs are simple undirected connected graphs, where vertices represent atoms in a molecule and edges represent chemical bonds. A degree-based topo...

Solving optimization problems in which functions are blackboxes and variables involve different types poses significant theoretical and algorithmic challeng...