(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

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 ...

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 ...

For years, John Alle complained to Los Angeles officials about homelessness. Now, fed up, he’s trying to make a dent in the problem on his own. For years, John Alle complained to Los Angeles officials ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding of ...

Entrepreneurs who build successful businesses often possess a unique ability to see what others don't—the critical bottlenecks hiding in plain sight that create frustration, inefficiency, and lost ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a distributed version of the Hungarian method to solve the well-known assignment problem. In the context of multirobot applications, all robots cooperatively ...