Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

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 ...

SubsetSumSolver is a high-performance C++ tool for solving the Subset Sum Problem. It features multiple algorithms, benchmarking capabilities, and the ability to save results to a PostgreSQL database.

Pau Torres and Tyrone Mings started together in central defence. It had been a long time coming, given their respective injuries and the general reticence to combine two left-footed defenders until ...

Abstract: The Subset-Sum Problem (SSP) ensures a significant role in various practical applications, which include cryptography and coding theory owing to the importance in the functionality of some ...

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 ...

Right now, quantum computers are small and error-prone compared to where they’ll likely be in a few years. Even within those limitations, however, there have been regular claims that the hardware can ...

ABSTRACT: Soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC) is significant to estimate the site-specific unsaturated soil properties (such as unsaturated shear strength and coefficient of permeability) for ...