The www.packomania.com site has certified that 3 (out of our 5 submissions) of new putative optima are indeed improvements. The other two had already been discovered but not yet published. From the official web site for sphere packing: 29-Jun-2018: Three
Machine learning applied to soccer
On June 10th, 2018, Repubblica has published a short news on an interesting application of Artificial Intelligence to soccer developed in our lab.
New results in sphere packing
We are performing experiments with a new global optimization algorithm based on clustering. While experimenting on the sphere packing problem (the problem of placing N identical, non overlapping, spheres of maximum radius inside the unit cube) we discovered 5 new
Machine learning, Optimization, Management
Today my master course on “Models and Algorithms for Organization and Management” has finished. I have had a very good class, with quite a lot of students – it has been a great satisfaction for me. But, differently from previous