An assignment refers to transferring rights or property. Learn how assignments work in options contracts and see examples of assignments in mortgages, wages, and leases.

After years of butting up against an all-white Boston School Committee that refused their demands, Black activists took the ...

Algorithms in clinical decision tools have been making it harder for certain racial and socioeconomic groups to receive the healthcare they deserve.

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: This letter develops two distributed algorithms to solve multi-robot task assignment problems (MTAP). We first describe MTAP as an integer linear programming (ILP) problem and then ...

College of Electromechanical Engineering, Anyang Vocational and Technical College, Anyang, China Introduction: Fault diagnosis analysis of mechanical equipment is greatly significant for maintaining ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and solve the long-standing polaron problem, unlocking deeper understanding of ...

Every piece of land carries a story of development, transformation, and human impact. From expanding urban centers to shifting agricultural zones, land use plays a crucial role in shaping both local ...

A new algorithm for estimating left ventricular filling pressure (LVFP) by echocardiography reduced indeterminate results to just two cases compared with 38 using previous guidelines, achieving 86% ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Professional astronomers don’t make discoveries by ...

In a standard paper assignment setting, a set $\mathcal{P}$ of $n^{(p)}$ papers needs to be assigned to a set $\mathcal{R}$ of $n^{(r)}$ reviewers. To ensure each ...