COVID-19 has upended nearly every aspect of our daily lives and forced us all to rethink how we can continue our work in a more physically isolated world.
Important insights into many data science problems that are traditionally analyzed via statistical models can be obtained by re-formulating and evaluating within a large-scale optimization framework.
Spatial optimization seeks optimal allocation or arrangement of spatial units under constraints such as distance, adjacency, contiguity, and pattern. Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are well-known optimization heuristics.