Formulate linear and integer programming problems for solving commonly encountered optimization problems. Understand how approximation algorithms compute solutions that are guaranteed to be within ...

It is a very common task to search one-dimensional arrays for specific data items, and there are a variety of algorithms for doing it. One of the most popular search algorithms is called Linear ...

Khachiyan, and recently Karmarkar, gave polynomial algorithms to solve the linear programming problem. These algorithms have a small theoretical drawback; namely, the number of arithmetic steps ...