Abstract: Competitive opinion maximization (COM) aims to determine some individuals (i.e., seed nodes) from social networks, propagating the desired opinions toward a target entity to their neighbors ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at 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 ...

Abstract: Security constrained unit commitment (SCUC) problem with uncertainty has become an important research task with the increasing scale of renewable energy access in the power system.