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Researchers develop the fastest possible flow algorithm

In a breakthrough that brings to mind Lucky Luke—the man who shoots faster than his shadow—Rasmus Kyng and his team have developed a superfast algorithm that looks set to transform an entire field of ...
Live Science

'Absurdly fast' algorithm solves 70-year-old logjam — speeding up network traffic in areas from airline scheduling to the internet

Network slowdowns could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a superfast new algorithm. The breakthrough offers a dramatically faster solution to a problem that has been plaguing computer scientists ...
NextBigFuture

MIT, Yale and USC have a better max-flow algorithm which improve networks and logistics

The maximum-flow problem, or max flow, is one of the most basic problems in computer science. MIT researchers, together with colleagues at Yale and the University of Southern California, have ...
Fast Company

How The Solution To A Soviet-Era Train Congestion Problem Could Lead To A New Era In Networking

The question of how best to transport items across a network–be that traffic over the Internet, or cars over the U.S. highway system–is one that has challenged mathematicians and computer scientists ...
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COMP_SCI 457: Advanced Algorithms

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Design and analysis of advanced algorithms: graph algorithms; maximal network flows; min-cost flow algorithms; convex cost flows. REQUIRED TEXT ...
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Researchers at ETH Zurich develop the fastest possible flow algorithm

In a breakthrough that brings to mind Lucky Luke – the man who shoots faster than his shadow – Rasmus Kyng and his team have developed a superfast algorithm that looks set to transform an entire field ...