Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...

The auction algorithm is a simple, well-studied alternative to the Hungarian method that: scales well to large problems, is naturally parallelisable and fits JAX’s accelerator model, is widely used in ...

1 School of Management, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China 2 Institute of Mathematical Sciences ICMAT-CSIC, Madrid, Spain In the open capacitated location-routing ...

ABSTRACT: For solving assignment problems of staff, equipment and task in engineering support action, a 3-Dimensional assignment model is established, which contains staff skill level, equipment ...

While delivering his victory speech on Tuesday night, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani made a statement about the government's role in citizens' lives, sparking concern from critics online.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Abstract: This letter develops two distributed algorithms to solve multi-robot task assignment problems (MTAP). We first describe MTAP as an integer linear programming (ILP) problem and then ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...

If you’re constantly fielding employees’ problems—and feeling buried by to-dos as a result—you’re not alone. When leaders take on too much in the name of being supportive, it can create team ...