The modified Weibull model (MWM) is one of the type-2 Weibull distributions that can be used for modeling lifetime data. It is important due to its simplicity and flexibility of the failure rate, and ...

The importance of support system dynamic fidelity in capturing turbine rotor performance in unbalance response and critical speed is considered. Lobal optimization methods based on multi-scale quantum ...

The evolution of what posts get top billing on users’ news feeds, and what gets obscured Facebook’s news feed algorithm has been blamed for fanning sectarian hatred, steering users toward extremism ...

Abstract: The problem of survival memory management of a Viterbi decoder is classically solved either by a power-hungry register-exchange implementation, or by a trace-back scheme with large latency.

Edit distance—a classical problem in computer science—has received ongoing attention from both practitioners and theoreticians. Given two strings A and B, the edit distance is the minimum number of ...

Abstract: Many real world applications require optimizing multiple objectives simultaneously. Multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (MOEA/D) is a new framework for dealing with ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech ...

Before we move into the meat of this article, let’s define a couple terms related to cryptography. The syllable crypt may make you think of tombs, but it comes from a Greek word that means “hidden” or ...

Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight. Darnell Gates, on probation in ...

This is the second article in a seven-part series on Algorithms and Computation, which explores how we use simple binary numbers to power our world. The first article, How Algorithms Run the World We ...

In June, the California Labor Commission ruled in favor of classifying Uber driver Barbara Ann Berwick as an employee and not as an independent contractor. But the battle over ride-hailing apps ...