The computation of point-to-point shortest paths on time-dependent transportation networks has many practical applications. Finding the shortest path on transportation networks, taking into account ...

Cutting path optimization is central to advancing industrial manufacturing processes, encompassing a range of applications from laser cutting and CNC machining to additive manufacturing. This field ...

In recent years, the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model has gained significant attention. However, most of distributed and parallel graph algorithms in the MPC model are designed for static ...

The constrained two-dimensional cutting (C_TDC) problem consists of determining a cutting pattern of a set of n small rectangular piece types on a rectangular stock ...

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 ...