Reviewer assignment algorithms and systems have emerged as critical tools in modern academic publishing and research evaluation, ensuring that submitted manuscripts are matched with expert reviewers ...

A separable assignment problem (SAP) is defined by a set of bins and a set of items to pack in each bin; a value, f, for assigning item j to bin i; and a separate packing constraint for each bin—i.e., ...

An example of the quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is the facility location problem, in which n facilities are assigned, at minimum cost, to n sites. Between each pair of facilities, there is a ...

Creating unbiased, accurate algorithms isn’t impossible — it’s just time consuming. “It actually is mathematically possible,” facial recognition startup Kairos CEO Brian Brackeen told me on a panel at ...

Find your added subjects in My Bitesize. Once we have recognised patterns in our problems, we use abstraction to gather the general characteristics and to filter out of the details we do not need in ...

In the early days of computing, there was an acronym: GIGO. It stands for Garbage In, Garbage Out. The few people in the mainframe industry understood that if the data going into the system wasn’t ...