The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Institute for Information Systems (WIN), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany Introduction: The analysis of discrete sequential data, such as event logs and customer ...

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 ...

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The impacts of social media algorithms are manifold: Algorithmically powered newsfeeds on social media threaten to destabilize countries and governments around the world, deeply impact mental health, ...

Results: Out of 8,452,630 total sleep logs collected over a median of 4.2 years of Fitbit monitoring, 401,777 (4.75%) nonprimary sleep logs identified by the default algorithm were reclassified as ...

Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome is associated with arrhythmia such as supraventricular tachycardia due to atrioventricular reciprocating tachycardia, atrial fibrillation (AF), and sudden death ...

Periodic pattern mining, a branch of data mining, is expanding to provide insight into the occurrence behavior of large volumes of data. Recently, a variety of industries, including fraud detection, ...