New Algorithm Lets Architects Design Stunning Curved Structures in Minutes

A new NURBS-based algorithm is revolutionizing gridshell design by enabling faster, smoother, and more flexible shape-finding ...
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Building better, building beautiful: Novel method allows more architects to design attractive gridshell structures

A researcher from the University of Tokyo and a U.S.-based structural engineer developed a new computational form-finding ...
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Math tree may help root out fraudsters: Applying algorithm to social networks can reveal hidden connections criminals use to commit fraud

Fraudsters beware: The more your social networks connect you and your accomplices to the crime, the easier it will be to shake you from the tree. The Steiner tree, that is. In a new article, ...
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Data mining algorithm selection: decision trees

The visual data mining process, seen in the first part of this two-part article, revealed patterns in four dimensions between cumulative gas well production and independent variables. "Jump ...
Wired

New Algorithms Force Scientists to Revise the Tree of Life

When the British morphologist St. George Jackson Mivart published one of the first evolutionary trees in 1865, he had very little to go on. He built the tree — a delicately branching map of different ...
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Clustering based on unsupervised binary trees to define subgroups of cancer patients according to symptom severity in cancer

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background Studies have suggested that clinicians do not feel comfortable with the interpretation of symptom severity, functional status, and ...