While sitting in a courtroom, waiting to find out if he would be chosen for jury duty, Daniel Spielman had a revelation-all the work he and colleague Shanghua Teng had built up over the past three ...

Roughly, we will cover the following topics (some of them may be skipped depending on the time available). Linear Programming: Basics, Simplex Algorithm, and Duality. Applications of Linear ...

New Scientist takes a look at the simplex algorithm, now over 60 years old, which is used by everyone from fruit suppliers to banks to make decisions about non-linear problems with so many ...

What Is an Algorithm? An algorithm is a set of instructions for solving a problem or accomplishing a task. One common example of an algorithm is a recipe, which consists of specific instructions ...

PROC NETFLOW solves network problems that can have side constraints. Certain algebraic features of networks are exploited by a specialized version of the Simplex method so that solution times are ...