Abstract: The 2D Bin Packing Problem (2DBPP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, where common heuristic algorithms often exhibit characteristics of greedy strategy scoring during the ...

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 ...

1 Department of Life Science and Informatics, Graduate School of Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan 2 Department of Life Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

There's a familiar TV discourse taking shape online right now, the kind that I suspect will look awfully familiar to you if you remember the way Game of Thrones crashed and burned in its eighth and ...