ABSTRACT: This note examines the utility of pseudorandom variables (prv) in Global Search and Optimization (GSO) using Central Force Optimization (CFO) as an example. Most GSO metaheuristics are ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India Introduction: Patient-generated drug reviews are becoming increasingly available and serve as a rich source ...

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 ...

My goal here is to implement several of the key algorithms in Sean Luke's book Essentials of Metaheuristics in Groovy. My initial goal is to both see what these algorithms look like in Groovy (I'm ...

ABSTRACT: Cybersecurity has emerged as a global concern, amplified by the rapid expansion of IoT devices and the growing digitization of systems. In this context, traditional security solutions such ...

When it comes to teaching math, a debate has persisted for decades: How, and to what degree, should algorithms be a focus of learning math? The step-by-step procedures are among the most debated ...

The recent murder of Brian Thompson, the former CEO of UnitedHealthcare—the largest health insurance company in the United States—has sparked widespread debate about the practices of insurance ...