Many software firms offer a fully functional version of their products free of charge, for a limited trial time, to ease consumers’ uncertainty about the functionalities of their products and to help the diffusion of their new software. This paper examines the tradeoff between the effects of...

We study the problem of finding a global optimal solution to discrete optimization problems using a heuristic based on quantum computing methods. (Knowledge of quantum computing ideas is not necessary to read this paper.) We focus on a successful quantum computing method introduced by Baritompa,...