You will spend hours tweaking the temperature decay rate in Simulated Annealing. Set a time limit. A mediocre algorithm with a perfect literature review often scores higher than a perfect algorithm with no documentation.
In an era of AI and Big Data, optimization is the hidden engine. Every time you see an Uber matched with a rider, a warehouse robot avoiding a collision, or a Netflix server caching a movie—that is INF8770 in action. Inf8770
By the end of this course, you will stop seeing a messy spreadsheet. You will see a matrix. You will see constraints. And you will see a path to the optimal solution. You will spend hours tweaking the temperature decay