Many sequential decision problems can be formulated as Markov decision processes (MDPs) where the optimal value function (or cost-to-go function) can be shown to satisfy a monotone structure in some ...

A team from Neapolis University Pafos was recently tanked in 79th place at the ICPC World Finals 2025, held in Baku, and also received the Honours distinction.The ICPC is a global algorithmic ...

Here are two stories about love in the age of the algorithm. The first one is from the hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory, which features a cast of science geeks trying to navigate through the non-geek ...

Algorithmic, algo or automated trading is a practice that involves a computer program to execute trades. The program uses ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...