A Stanford grad student created an algorithm to help his classmates find love; now, Date Drop is the basis of his new startup

As Valentine’s Day approaches at Stanford, some students may be gearing up for first dates — not with people they met on Tinder or Hinge, but with matches from a service called Date Drop, designed by ...
Scientific Research Publishing

J. Munkres, “Algorithms for the Assignment and Transportation Problems,” SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1957, pp. 32-38. doi:10.1137/0105003

ABSTRACT: The lack of semantic parts, increasing the number of Web services in the Web, and syntactic-based search operation are the main problems of current Web service technologies, these factors ...
acm.org

Algorithm 27: assignment

The assignment problem is formulated and briefly discussed. An efficient algorithm for its solution is presented in ALGOL code. An empirical relation between solution time and the size of the problem ...
Wired

A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

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 ...
Science Daily

This Algorithm Just Solved One of Physics’ Most Infamous Problems

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 ...
IEEE

Nearest-Better Clustering-Based Memetic Algorithm for Berth Allocation and Crane Assignment Problem

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 ...
Wired

A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...
Frontiers

Hybrid genetic algorithm and Q-learning-based solution for the time-variant berth and quay crane allocation problem

Institute of Logistics Science and Engineering of Shanghai Maritime University, Pudong, China Introduction: This study addresses the joint scheduling optimization of continuous berths and quay cranes ...
marktechpost

REDA: A Novel AI Approach to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning That Makes Complex Sequence-Dependent Assignment Problems Solvable

Power distribution systems are often conceptualized as optimization models. While optimizing agents to perform tasks works well for systems with limited checkpoints, things begin to go out of hand ...
The New York Times

Is Creativity Dead?

Mr. Ferguson is a documentary filmmaker. As you scroll through the internet, you’ve probably noticed the same problem Kirby Ferguson has: “Everything looks the same, sounds the same, is the same.” In ...