I’ve been teaching college Earth science courses as a part-time faculty member for a long time now, all while juggling other jobs. I started because it was enjoyable; no one gets into this line of ...

Introductory problem used to familiarise with the judge's I/O format. Given a list of numbers, count the even numbers and compute their sum. Sort a stack of pancakes using only flip operations ...

Abstract: The Sensor-Weapon-Target Assignment (SWTA) problem in modern air defense systems requires simultaneous optimization of sensor allocation, weapon assignment, and temporal coordination under ...

Low-rank data analysis has emerged as a powerful paradigm across applied mathematics, statistics, and data science. With the rapid growth of modern datasets in size, dimensionality, and complexity, ...

Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new arms race and the centerpiece of defense modernization efforts across multiple countries, including the United States. Yet, despite the surge in AI investments, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Abstract: The growth of international trade has accelerated the development of waterway transportation, thereby increasing the demand for the construction of container terminals. Optimizing the Berth ...

1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, China. 2 Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of ...