Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that ...

I'm sitting here, and doing some homework, flow networks. And a question lead me to think, how to determine if a shortest-path is unique (I want to know is a min-cut is unique).<BR><BR>This is ...

In algorithms, as in life, negativity can be a drag. Consider the problem of finding the shortest path between two points on a graph — a network of nodes connected by links, or edges. Often, these ...

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 ...