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 ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Ran Duan, Jiayi Mao, Xiao Mao, Xinkai Shu, Longhui Yin (2025): Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths“. 57th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC). Faster ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finding the shortest path in a network is a classical problem, and a variety of search strategies have been proposed to solve it. In this paper, we review traditional approaches for finding shortest ...

Institute of Logistics Science and Engineering of Shanghai Maritime University, Pudong, China Introduction: This study addresses the joint scheduling optimization of continuous berths and quay cranes ...

Abstract: The shortest path problem is a widely recognized and fundamental optimization problem in operations research. Nearly all practical implementations of the shortest path issue include ...