When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

ABSTRACT: The accurate prediction of backbreak, a crucial parameter in mining operations, has a significant influence on safety and operational efficiency. The occurrence of this phenomenon is ...

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 ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Brookdale Senior Living will be required to adopt corporate governance reforms and pay $1.9 million in attorneys’ fees and expenses under the terms of a settlement to a lawsuit over the company’s ...

1 Department of Industrial Engineering and Maintenance, Polytechnic University of Mongo, Mongo, Chad. 2 Department of Technical Sciences, University of N’Djamena, N’Djamena, Chad. 3 Department of ...

In the Dijkstra algorithm, when a shorter path to a neighbor is found, the neighbor's priority in the priority queue should be updated regardless of whether it is already present in the queue. In this ...

Spell checking is such a ubiquitous feature of today's software that we expect to see it in browsers and basic text editors, and on just about every computing device. However, 50 years ago, it was a ...

Graph theory is an integral component of algorithm design that underlies sparse matrices, relational databases, and networks. Improving the performance of graph algorithms has direct implications to ...