Standard computer implementations of Dantzig's simplex method for linear programming are based upon forming the inverse of the basic matrix and updating the inverse ...

As companies race to build the latest and greatest software for their businesses, they are overloading their tech balance sheets with an oft-ignored kind of debt. It’s known as “technical debt.” ...

Integer linear programming can help find the answer to a variety of real-world problems. Now researchers have found a much faster way to do it. The traveling salesperson problem is one of the oldest ...

Fending off doubts and criticisms, Alabama’s attorney general hailed a new execution method as “humane and effective.” By Shaila Dewan For as long as America has had the death penalty, there have been ...

If you’re old enough, think back to the year 1999. I was at college then and I had an email account, but no cellphone on which to constantly check it. I mostly used my boxy desktop computer to type ...

Since its creation more than two decades ago by Daniel Spielman (above) and Shang-hua Teng, smoothed analysis has been used to analyze performance of algorithms other than the simplex method, ...

Solve linear optimization problems including minimization and maximization with simplex algorithm. Uses the Big M method to solve problems with larger equal constraints in Python ...

Apple recently promised its staff more flexible schedules and more generous scheduling rules, according to CNET. Some see the move as an effort to keep increasing interest among employees to unionize ...