Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon

Dijkstra is a legend in computer science and his algorithm, which he published in 1959, predates packet switching by a few years. The specification for OSPF (Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), one of ...
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Why the straight line is the shortest path: A variational approach

Why is a straight line always the shortest path between two points? 📐 This video explains the result using a variational approach, showing how minimizing distance leads naturally to a straight line ...
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New algorithm finds the shortest path to any point in record time

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 ...
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The All-Pairs Shortest Paths Problem, Seeking the Shortest Distance Between Every Node Pair in a Graph, is Efficiently Solved by Johnson's Algorithm for All Pairs of a Vertext, Bellman-Ford for ...
NextBigFuture

New Sorting Algorithm Breakthrough is Better than Dijkstra

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...
NJ.com

Ongoing Hoboken station problems prompt PATH to offer other options this week

PATH riders using Hoboken Terminal will be offered free or discounted rides on NJ Transit and NY Waterway ferries starting Tuesday due to repairs of Hoboken switch problems blamed for a July 12 ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Liu, H., Jin, C., Yang, B. and Zhou, A. (2018) Finding Top-K Shortest Paths with Diversity. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 30, 488-502.

ABSTRACT: In any military operation, reliable logistics is essential to maintaining a combat-effective force. Without the continual resupply of ammunition, food, and other materiel, forces cannot ...
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Chang, T., Nozick, L.K. and Turnquist, M.A. (2005) Multiobjective Path Finding in Stochastic Dynamic Networks, with Application to Routing Hazardous Materials Shipments ...

ABSTRACT: In any military operation, reliable logistics is essential to maintaining a combat-effective force. Without the continual resupply of ammunition, food, and other materiel, forces cannot ...
Wired

A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...
IEEE

Multi-Objective Optimization for Multimodal Multi-Objective Multi-Point Shortest Path Problem Considering Unforeseeable Road Eventualities

Abstract: Multi-objective multi-point shortest path planning problems are commonly encountered in real-world applications. Numerous path planning algorithms have been proposed to accommodate different ...
The New York Times

Niclas Fullkrug, Evan Ferguson and diverging paths to solving West Ham’s striker problem

In a contest of little quality, it was Niclas Fullkrug who served a reminder of what he offers to West Ham United’s attack when fully fit. The encounter against Wolverhampton Wanderers had little ...