1 Educational Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States 2 Teacher Education, University of Nebraska Kearney, Kearney, NE, United States Hispanic children face significant ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 69, No. 3 (MARCH 2018), pp. 402-415 (14 pages) This paper presents a heuristic for the guillotine two-dimensional bin packing problem, where a set ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The human brain is very good at solving complicated problems. One reason for that is that humans can break problems apart into manageable subtasks that are easy to solve one at a time ...

Abstract: The 15-Puzzle is one of the most famous benchmarks to test heuristic search algorithms that are challenging both in efficient state space exploration and optimizing solutions. The task in ...

If you want to accentuate the importance of a problem, it seems sensible to explain how prevalent it is. Lots of people are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Lots of women carry a gene that makes them ...

Problem-solving therapy (PST) helps individuals manage stress by breaking down challenges into practical, manageable steps. The aim of the therapy is to help people cope more confidently with ...

Abstract: The joint order batching and picker routing problem is an important problem for improving warehouse efficiency. The goal is to minimize the total distance travel of picking customer orders.

Research has shown that students’ learning gains in mathematics are greater when they work with problems rather than routine tasks. These learning gains from problem-solving activities may be enhanced ...