Dimitri P. Bertsekas, The Auction Algorithm for Assignment and Other Network Flow Problems: A Tutorial, Interfaces, Vol. 20, No. 4, The Practice of Mathematical ...

What is an algorithm? An algorithm is a list of rules to follow in order to complete a task or solve a problem. The steps in an algorithm need to be in the right order.

The new algorithm solves these two problems in “almost linear” time, which means that the algorithm’s runtime is roughly proportional to the amount of time it takes merely to write down the details of ...

Computer scientists are abuzz over a fast new algorithm for solving one of the central problems in the field.

We generate 2,639 test problems, which involve 99 items and are substantially larger than most of the previously used benchmark problems. Because there are no real-life test problems for combinatorial ...