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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper discusses the solution of a resource allocation problem and a new method for solving a special case of the problem. An algorithm for ...

How can teachers help students develop problem-solving skills when they themselves, even though confronted with an array of problems every day, may need to become better problem solvers? Our ...

Background: A Community health assessment (CHA) involves the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in conjunction with other software to analyze health and population data and perform ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Following the basic model of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), we consider a more general combinatorial optimisation problem: TSP on ...

Chico Q. Camargo's work has been funded by the Volkswagen foundation, and by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) via the Alan Turing ...