Fowler-Nordheim (FN) annealers use principles of quantum mechanical tunneling to search for that most optimal solution efficiently, and they're the "secret ingredient" in NeuroSA, Chakrabartty says.

We propose a hybridized method where we combine an adaptive multidimensional integration algorithm and a metaheuristic algorithm called imperialist competitive algorithm to find Bayesian optimal ...

A comparison and evaluation is made of recent proposals for multivariate matched sampling in observational studies, where the following three questions are answered: (1) Algorithms: In current ...