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One of the main promises of technology development is for it to be adopted by people, organizations, societies, and governments -- incorporated into their life, work stream, or processes. Often, this is socially beneficial as it automates…

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We introduce and consider a certain probability question involving elementary number theory and the likelihood that a fixed prime will appear in a certain recursively defined factorization of an integer. We derive several convergent…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Patrick Devlin , Edinah Gnang

For most of human history, we have not thought systematically about how and why we incorporate aspects of the natural world into our designs. The lack of a systematic approach has resulted in inconsistencies in motivations and methods that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Margaret J. Zhang , Justin Ting , Talia Y. Moore

Innovation emerges from complex collaboration patterns - among inventors, firms, or institutions. However, not much is known about the overall mesoscopic structure around which inventive activity self-organizes. Here, we tackle this problem…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-19 Lorenzo Emer , Anna Gallo , Mattia Marzi , Andrea Mina , Tiziano Squartini , Andrea Vandin

High throughput experimentation tools, machine learning (ML) methods, and open material databases are radically changing the way new materials are discovered. From the experimentally driven approach in the past, we are moving quickly…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-06 Albertus Denny Handoko , Riko I Made

Probabilistic programming is considered as a framework, in which basic components of cognitive architectures can be represented in unified and elegant fashion. At the same time, necessity of adopting some component of cognitive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Alexey Potapov

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence has led to expectations of transformative impact on science, yet current systems remain fundamentally limited in enabling genuine scientific discovery. This perspective contends that progress…

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Creativity, or the ability to produce new useful ideas, is commonly associated to the human being; but there are many other examples in nature where this phenomenon can be observed. Inspired by this fact, in engineering and particularly in…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-26 David Daniel Albarracín Molina

The last decade has witnessed a number of important and exciting developments that had been achieved for improving recurrence plot based data analysis and to widen its application potential. We will give a brief overview about important and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-09 Norbert Marwan , K. Hauke Kraemer

The accuracies for many pattern recognition tasks have increased rapidly year by year, achieving or even outperforming human performance. From the perspective of accuracy, pattern recognition seems to be a nearly-solved problem. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu , Ching Y. Suen

The diffusion of ideas is often closely connected to the creation and diffusion of knowledge and to the technological evolution of society. Because of this, knowledge creation, exchange and its subsequent transformation into innovations for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-08-31 Nikolay K. Vitanov , Marcel R. Ausloos

Emergence is a pregnant property in various fields. It is the fact for a phenomenon to appear surprisingly and to be such that it seems at first sight that it is not possible to predict its apparition. That is the reason why it has often…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Hervé Zwirn

A growing literature has examined whether innovation is becoming less disruptive, spanning diverse domains and data sources and using a range of methodologies. This paper provides an inventory of 105 studies exploring this question. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-06 Xiangting Wu , Linhui Wu , Michael Park , Erin Leahey , Russell J. Funk

Systems are growing into more complex ones for developing and maintaining. Existing systems which do not have much in common on the first look are connected, due to the technical progress, even if it was never intended that way. It is an…

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An activity fundamental to science is building mathematical models. These models are used to both predict the results of future experiments and gain insight into the structure of the system under study. We present an algorithm that…

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Recently, feature selection has become an increasingly important area of research due to the surge in high-dimensional datasets in all areas of modern life. A plethora of feature selection algorithms have been proposed, but it is difficult…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Andrew Lensen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

All non-trivial software systems suffer from unanticipated production failures. However, those systems are passive with respect to failures and do not take advantage of them in order to improve their future behavior: they simply wait for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Martin Monperrus

Problem statement: Although, literature proves the importance of the technology role in the effectiveness of virtual Research and Development (R&D) teams for new product development. However, the factors that make technology construct in a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-07-31 Ale Ebrahim , Nader Ahmed , Shamsuddin Abdul Rashid , Salwa Hanim , Zahari Taha

We propose an explanatory and computational theory of transformative discoveries in science. The theory is derived from a recurring theme found in a diverse range of scientific change, scientific discovery, and knowledge diffusion theories…

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