I have a 12-year-old son, “Zach.” Zach gets excellent grades, so I was stunned when one of his science assignments came back as a zero. I asked him what on earth happened, and he told me that it was a ...

Some readers are fed up with me! “Don’t guilt trip me” is a refrain I heard from many readers of my recent columns from West Africa and South Sudan about children dying because of cuts in American ...

This study provides important findings that during credit assignment, the lateral orbitofrontal cortex (lOFC) and hippocampus (HC) encode causal choice representations, while the frontopolar cortex ...

The Assignment Solver is a Java library that solves the Assignment Problem efficiently using the Hungarian Algorithm. It supports both: Cost minimization (e.g., minimizing task assignment costs).

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 Minimization of Open Stacks Problem (MOSP) is a Pattern Sequencing Problem that often arises in industry. Besides the MOSP, there are also other related Pattern Sequencing Problems of similar ...

In this paper we compare track data association purity, accuracy, and timing on a simple, idealized model tracking problem for two data association methods: Global Nearest Neighbor (GNN) and Linear ...

Bill Gates spends a lot of his time and money trying to help solve some of the world's biggest problems — from climate change to poverty. One major problem has even him stumped. "Misinformation is the ...

Problems continuously arise in organizational life, making problem-solving an essential skill for leaders. Leaders who are good at tackling conundrums are likely to be more effective at overcoming ...

Companies can drive positive change in society if they profit from solving problems and actively avoid creating new ones. So says economist Colin Mayer, whose latest book makes that very case. It’s a ...

The investigation at the heart of FRONTLINE’s new documentary A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela unfolded as Venezuelan journalist Roberto Deniz started looking into ...