Consider the problem of finding the shortest path between two points on a graph — a network of nodes connected ... Now a trio of computer scientists has solved this long-standing problem. Their new ...

Scenarios like this are also a challenge for researchers who develop algorithms ... source shortest-paths problem. The algorithm works in an abstracted road map called a graph: a network of ...

A team of computer ... imagine a network of highways on which you’d like to send as many delivery trucks as possible from Los Angeles to New York City in a given amount of time. Ford and Fulkerson’s ...

Following a similar design process, we will design efficient algorithms for a sequence of problems: shortest paths, minimal cycle ratios, maximal network flows, min-cost flows, and convex cost flows.

Computer scientists ... have developed another algorithm that also handles connections being removed. Specifically, these algorithms identify the shortest routes in networks where connections ...