Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable ...

Adults in Germany are better than the international average at coping with problems in new and complex situations. However, this adaptive problem-solving skill depends more heavily on sociodemographic ...

Abstract: In this communication, a parallel direct finite element solver is proposed for solving complex electromagnetic problems. Our proposed solver features adaptive fill-reducing ordering and ...

A wicked problem in strategy is one that defies a straightforward solution. The term is used to describe complex problems that refuse conventional problem-solving ...

Abstract: Backtracking combined with branching heuristics is a prevalent approach for tackling constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) and combinatorial optimization problems (COPs). While branching ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

Executive coaching is incredibly valuable to leaders, but it can be hard to access at the moment they need it the most. Take a client of mine, “Simon,” a capable and newly promoted executive in a ...

There are tough problems that every business faces, and they can slow things down, make budgets stretch, or put off decisions. It takes time to deal with these problems, and most businesses don’t have ...

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think has scored well in math competitions, and a version of it is now available for those who fork over $250 a month. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home ...

Curriculum learning is a class of training strategies that organizes the data being exposed to a model by difficulty, gradually from simpler to more complex examples. This research explores a reverse ...