Introduction Never before in human history has a small minority wielded this degree of control over the lives of the majority ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...

The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is a cornerstone technique for parameter estimation in statistical models that incorporate latent variables or incomplete data. By iteratively alternating ...

Submodular maximization is a significant area of interest in combinatorial optimization, with numerous real-world applications. A research team led by Xiaoming SUN from the State Key Lab of Processors ...

Algorithms that identify influential people in social networks can help maximize the reach of messages, but a modeling study published in PNAS Nexus shows that those same algorithms can disseminate ...

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: Visual Sensor Networks (VSNs) focus on capturing data, extracting relevant information, and enabling communication. However, the presence of obstacles affects network efficiency, linking ...

VISTA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Flux Power Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLUX), a leading developer of advanced lithium-ion energy storage solutions and software-driven electrification for commercial and ...

This paper studies the fair influence maximization problem with efficient algorithms. In particular, given a graph G, a community structure C consisting of disjoint communities, and a budget k, the ...

Accessibility refers to the relative ease by which services can be reached from a given location (1). Accessibility can be defined by spatial factors, determined by where you are; and non-spatial ...