Solving Sudoku with Metaheuristics: GVNS

Reading Time: 5 minutes The last time I travelled, I saw a little old lady in the airport with her crossword puzzle book. My grandmother travels with her word search book. Me? In my old age, I will travel with a Sudoku book. Before I hit old age, I will take advantage of the opportunity to combine my studies […]

Metric Learning For Simulation Analytics

Reading Time: 5 minutes The idea of simulation analytics was first described by Barry Nelson. It is not just “saving all the simulation data” and then applying modern data-analysis tools. In this post, we look at this emerging field.

A new reality TV show idea: the Stable Marriage algorithm

Reading Time: 3 minutes As a hopeful romantic, a believer in the principle of marriage and a lover of dating reality TV, I was immediately intrigued by this problem and solution. So to celebrate Valentine’s Day I thought it would be fitting to look at the stable marriage problem.