quadratic binary programming

A Tutorial on Formulating and Using QUBO Models

  • Yu Du
  • Fred Glover
  • Gary Kochenberger
    • Categories 0-1 Programming, Combinatorial Optimization Tags , ,

    The Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) model has gained prominence in recent years with the discovery that it unifies a rich variety of combinatorial optimization problems. By its association with the Ising problem in physics, the QUBO model has emerged as an underpinning of the quantum computing area known as quantum annealing and has become … Read more

    A Tutorial on Formulating QUBO Models

  • Fred Glover
  • Gary Kochenberger
    • Categories 0-1 Programming, Combinatorial Optimization, Meta Heuristics Tags ,

    The field of Combinatorial Optimization (CO) is one of the most important areas in the general field of optimization, with important applications found in every industry, including both the private and public sectors. It is also one of the most active research areas pursued by the research communities of Operations Research, Computer Science, and Analytics … Read more