Researchers have combined the Dijkstra and Bellman-Ford algorithms to develop an even faster way to find the shortest paths ...

Impact Statement: Advanced autonomous aerial vehicles are increasingly pivotal in providing emergency services within intelligent transportation systems. Efficiently scheduling the aerial vehicles is ...

The big picture: In 2019, Google's Sycamore chip achieved quantum supremacy by solving a random number problem that would have taken the fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to complete. Although that ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop. But it seems the online encyclopedia is not completely immune to broader ...

Abstract: In multimodal multi-objective optimization problems (MMOPs), multiple solutions on different Pareto optimal solution sets (PSs) are mapped to the same point on the Pareto front. Considering ...

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 ...

The Bengals made a huge splash in the NFL realm this week when they traded for veteran Browns backup Joe Flacco, a bombshell attempt at saving their plummeting season. Flacco, who was benched in ...