Dijkstra's algorithm has long been the quickest way of finding the shortest possible paths in a network, but researchers have ...

Solving the riddle can reduce electric car battery consumption and make life tougher for currency speculators in the future. The discovery has just won the award for best research article and was ...

One of the most classic algorithmic problems deals with calculating the shortest path between two points. A more complicated variant of the problem is when the route traverses a changing network - ...

We live in a frighteningly divided, unstable and increasingly self-destructive world. Formidable problems facing our communities, our nation and the world are going unsolved. Such challenges include a ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May 2013), pp. 209-227 (19 pages) We consider a totally asynchronous stochastic approximation algorithm, Q-learning, for solving finite space ...

Military Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2009), pp. 31-52 (22 pages) We formulate and solve aircraftrouting problems that arise when planning missions for military aircraft that are subject to ...

Benito Piuzzi is the COO of Lakeview Loan Servicing and former McKinsey consultant where he specialized in large-scale transformations. Problem-solving is a core competency needed in any business to ...

Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Jenny Quan is exploring the mathematical principles behind Rubik's cubes.