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Abstract: The multiple-choice knapsack problem (MCKP) is a classic NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. Motivated by several significant real-world applications, this work investigates a novel ...

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The authors are social theorists who have long studied the roots and consequences of inequality. Aug. 15, 2025 In the early years of the 20th century, America had a “boy problem.” Boys on the street, ...

Artificial intelligence has penetrated deeply into financial services, powering everything from credit scoring to fraud detection. Yet a fundamental tension exists between AI's computational power and ...

When the pandemic upended the world of higher education, Robin Pugh, a professor at City College of San Francisco, began to see one puzzling problem in her online courses: Not everyone was a real ...

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