From August 12th to 16th, 2024, the 8th NUS-ISM-ZIB-IIR-MODAL Workshop, titled “Next Generation Computing and Algorithms in the Digital Era,” took place. This workshop is the eighth in a successful series of international collaborations with our Japanese and Singaporean partners, strongly supported by the research campus MODAL. The workshop aimed to explore the potential of next-generation computing and algorithms, focusing on accelerating industrial growth and enhancing societal well-being. It provided a unique platform for experts from various disciplines to exchange...Read More
The paper titled “Faster exact solution of sparse MaxCut and QUBO problems” (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-023-00236-6) by Daniel Rehfeldt, Thorsten Koch, and Yuji Shinano has won the Outstanding Paper of the Year Award 2023 in Mathematical Programming Computation. The award was announced at the 2024 ISMP in Montreal, Canada. This research, a collaboration between the SynLab of the Research Campus MODAL, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), and i2damo GmbH, introduces the QuBowl solver. This tool marks a significant advancement in solving the maximum-cut (MaxCut)...Read More
Gioni Mexi and his coauthors Somayeh Shamsi, Mathieu Besancon, and Pierre Le Bodic won the Best Student Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR), which was held on May 28-31, 2024, in Uppsala, Sweden. Gioni Mexi is a PhD student in the SynLab of the Research Campus MODAL, where he works on advancing the state of the art in mixed-integer linear programming. The paper titled “Probabilistic Lookahead Strong...Read More
