The scheduling of agile Earth observation satellites is to select a subset of candidate targets each associated with a profit during their visible time windows in order to maximize the collected ...

Reprint: R0711C Many executives are surprised when previously successful leadership approaches fail in new situations, but different contexts call for different kinds of responses. Before ...

This paper is a continuous study of our recently proposed gradient-free deterministic method, named granular sieving (GrS), for its application exploration. GrS is developed to solve global ...