My grandfather grew up in Franklin County, Va., a small farming region deep in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. As a child, he did his schoolwork by firelight and passed long days plowing ...

Babies like me. Perhaps it’s something about my slightly cauliflowered ears, which invariably end up clutched in their slobbery fists. Or maybe they just sense my Big Dad Energy, given that I’ve ...

Abstract: Market-based control is a control approach that can be used to organize resource control problems by establishing an artificial market economy for the allocation of these resources. In such ...

Abstract: Automated design of metaheuristic algorithms offers an attractive avenue to reduce human effort and gain enhanced performance beyond human intuition. Current automated methods design ...