Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

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, ...

TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...

Abstract: This letter develops two distributed algorithms to solve multi-robot task assignment problems (MTAP). We first describe MTAP as an integer linear programming (ILP) problem and then ...

The change is part of a deal to bring TikTok under U.S. ownership to avert a looming ban. By Emmett Lindner and Lauren Hirsch The software giant Oracle will oversee the security of Americans’ data and ...

Every piece of land carries a story of development, transformation, and human impact. From expanding urban centers to shifting agricultural zones, land use plays a crucial role in shaping both local ...

Abstract: Task assignment and path planning are crucial links in the task execution of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) cluster, especially in high-dimensional complex scenarios, the calculation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Buildings are an important part of the energy consumption of cities. With recent developments in integrated energy systems in buildings, the need for a smart energy management system (EMS) has ...