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Constraint programming combined with machine learning provides a robust framework for addressing complex combinatorial problems across diverse domains such as energy management, production scheduling ...

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Festo’s Eric Rice explains two commonly used concepts “(software-defined automation” and “function integration”) in simple terms before contextualizing how Festo applies these concepts. The goal of ...

The three most common open source technologies for writing data science programs are Python, SciLab, and R. Here's how to write program-defined functions in R. There's no clear definition of the term ...

Function pointers can be used for a wide variety of applications including the implementation of state machines. Just like any tool, it may not always be appropriate to use function pointers for a ...