Physicist Albert Einstein famously posited that if he only had an hour to crack a daunting problem, he'd devote 55 minutes to ...

Solving the riddle can reduce electric car battery consumption and make life tougher for currency speculators in the future. The discovery has just won the award for best research article and was ...

We live in a frighteningly divided, unstable and increasingly self-destructive world. Formidable problems facing our communities, our nation and the world are going unsolved. Such challenges include a ...

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), shared his approach to solving problems, including those related to his philanthropic projects.

One of the most classic algorithmic problems deals with calculating the shortest path between two points. A more complicated variant of the problem is when the route traverses a changing network - ...

Military Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2009), pp. 31-52 (22 pages) We formulate and solve aircraftrouting problems that arise when planning missions for military aircraft that are subject to ...

Benito Piuzzi is the COO of Lakeview Loan Servicing and former McKinsey consultant where he specialized in large-scale transformations. Problem-solving is a core competency needed in any business to ...

This paper proposes a path-based algorithm for solving the well-known logit-based stochastic user equilibrium (SUE) problem in transportation planning and management. Based on the gradient projection ...

Bees tackle the traveling salesman problem better than supercomputers, showcasing their impressive cognitive abilities. Having a bee brain might not be so bad after all, since new research shows that ...