The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

Optimization algorithms constitute a foundational pillar of computational science, encompassing a spectrum of methods designed to locate minima or maxima of objective functions under a variety of ...

Since its creation more than two decades ago by Daniel Spielman (above) and Shang-hua Teng, smoothed analysis has been used to analyze performance of algorithms other than the simplex method, ...

Software codes for running the Game-theoretic Utility Tree (GUT) algorithm for the multi-robot Pursuit-Evasion problem in the Robotarium's simulator-hardware multi-robot testbed.

Nestled among the impressive domes and spires of Yale University is the simple office of Daniel Spielman. His shelves are lined with tall black notebooks, containing decades of handwritten notes, and ...

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Abstract: A new heuristic optimization algorithm is presented to solve the nonlinear optimization problems. The proposed algorithm utilizes a stochastic method to achieve the optimal point based on ...

Worse-case analysis takes a “Murphy’s Law” approach to algorithm analysis, which is too crude to give meaningful algorithmic guidance for many important problems, including linear programming, ...