Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

Pour one out for the ancient MetroCard and its equally old cousin, the PATH SmartLink card. The beginning of the end for these longtime ways to pay fares on the bi-state PATH system came Thursday when ...

1 College of Electromechanical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Shandong Province, China 2 Shandong Gaomi Technician Institute, Shandong Province, China For the low ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

In what is expected to be his final public remarks before the Federal Reserve’s October rate decision, Chair Jerome Powell said there is no "risk-free" path for policy, as the labor market shows signs ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Graph theory is an integral component of algorithm design that underlies sparse matrices, relational databases, and networks. Improving the performance of graph algorithms has direct implications to ...

1 School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin, China. 2 School of Vocational Education, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, ...