New research from the University of Waterloo is making inroads on one of the biggest problems in theoretical computer science ...

Research and investment in artificial intelligence (AI) have rapidly expanded over the past decade. The International Data Corporation predicts that global spending on cognitive and AI systems will ...

where \(\mathsf{G}(\cdot)\) is some convex operator and \(\mathcal{F}\) is as set of feasible input distributions. Examples of such an optimization problem include finding capacity in information ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 113, Section 5: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING (2004), pp. 101-110 (10 pages) Modern engineering design often involves computation-intensive simulation processes and ...

We develop a novel framework, the implicit hitting set approach, for solving a class of combinatorial optimization problems. The explicit hitting set problem is as follows: given a set U and a family ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...

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