Researchers developed a machine-learning-guided technique to solve complex, long-horizon planning problems more efficiently than some traditional approaches, while arriving at an optimal solution that ...

Imagine a coffee company trying to optimize its supply chain. The company sources beans from three suppliers, roasts them at two facilities into either dark or light coffee, and then ships the roasted ...

And with limited amounts of people and time to sort out every single issue, firms need to triage to make sure the most ...

A combination of increased regulation, a chastened banking sector, and large-scale bond market purchases by central banks (thereby reducing the available supply of readily tradeable securities) has ...