Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Exploring the Academic Research Process

During an April 2 showcase event, Research Track students presented the work they developed over the two quarters. The 12 ...

Meet the man behind algebra and algorithms: The Persian scholar who shaped mathematics more than 1,200 years ago

More than 1,200 years ago, in the intellectual heart of Abbasid Baghdad, a Persian scholar quietly reshaped how humans ...
IEEE

On the Difficulty to Beat the First Linear Programming Bound for Binary Codes

Abstract: The first linear programming bound is the best known asymptotic upper bound for binary codes, for a certain subrange of distances. Starting from the work of Friedman and Tillich (2005), ...
SciELO

BRANCH-AND-CUT METHOD FOR SOLVING THE INTEGER LINEAR MULTIPLICATIVE BILEVEL PROBLEM

We study a class of integer bilevel problems, the so-called Integer Linear Multiplicative Bilevel Problem, ILMBP, where the constraints are linear and both the upper level problem and the lower level ...

Prompt Engineering And The New Seed-Of-Thought Prompting Technique That Seeks To Solve The AI Options-Choosing Problem

Prompt engineering keeps adding new techniques. One is the String Seed-of-Thought (SSoT) that aids options-choosing, game ...
Communications of the ACM

A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust

Programmers learning Rust struggle to understand own\x02ership types, Rust’s core mechanism for ensuring memory safety ...
IEEE

LiP-LLM: Integrating Linear Programming and Dependency Graph With Large Language Models for Multi-Robot Task Planning

Abstract: This study proposes LiP-LLM: integrating linear programming and dependency graph with large language models (LLMs) for multi-robot task planning. For multi-robots to efficiently perform ...