Companies have a new toolkit for solving complex problems in teams that borrows its approach from computer science, according to MIT Sloan. Getting started with a complex problem can seem daunting.

Solving the riddle can reduce electric car battery consumption and make life tougher for currency speculators in the future. The discovery has just won the award for best research article and was ...

Competitive programming has been considered as one of the strictest methods of evaluating the problem solving capabilities, logical thinking, and pressure under demanding circumstances of a student.

A puzzle that has long flummoxed computers and the scientists who program them has suddenly become far more manageable. A new algorithm efficiently solves the graph isomorphism problem, computer ...

A team of computer scientists has come up with a dramatically faster algorithm for one of the oldest problems in computer science: maximum flow. The problem asks how much material can flow through a ...

For more than half a century, researchers around the world have been struggling with an algorithmic problem known as "the single source shortest path problem". The problem is essentially about how to ...