PENDLE, England (AP) — Nestled in the rolling countryside of Ribble Valley in northwest England is a modest ski slope about 140 meters (yards) long, 10 meters wide and surrounded by roaming sheep.

Abstract: This paper proposes a new evolutionary partition based method to tackle complex combinatorial optimization problems, such as a class of scheduling problems with hard Q-time constraints. The ...

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Abstract: This paper presents a data-driven optimization method based on tree search-based reinforcement learning to solve strongly non-separable mixed-integer problems. With this method, some ...

PENDLE, England (AP) — Nestled in the rolling countryside of Ribble Valley in northwest England is a modest ski slope about 140 meters (yards) long, 10 meters wide and surrounded by roaming sheep.

Competitors warm up before an inter-club ski meeting at Pendle Ski Club in Clitheroe, England, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super) PENDLE, England (AP) — Nestled in the rolling countryside of ...

Nestled in the rolling countryside of Ribble Valley in northwest England is a modest ski slope about 140 meters (yards) long, 10 meters wide and surrounded by roaming sheep. It’s a gentle hill, ...

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