Why does cancer sometimes recur after chemotherapy? Why do some bacteria survive antibiotic treatment? In many cases, the answer appears to lie not in genetic differences, but in biological noise - ...

Abstract: Job-shop scheduling is a fundamental optimization issue in manufacturing. It involves determining the optimal allocation of many jobs among machines to increase makespan, throughput, and ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

School of Information Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China. Tourism development in emerging destinations requires balancing economic benefits with ecological sustainability. In this ...

Join order optimization is among the most crucial query optimization problems, and its central position is also evident in the new research field where quantum computing is applied to database ...

1 Department of Life Science and Informatics, Graduate School of Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan 2 Department of Life Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, ...

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn algorithm, named after IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn, who patented it in ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Dr. Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University, founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Call it MAG: mutually assured gerrymandering. First ...