The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get ...

The death of mathematician George Dantzig is a scientific watershed. Dantzig developed "linear programming" and the simplex method, used to solve complex efficiency problems for large organizations.

These criteria are useful when you want to divide a time-consuming optimization problem into a series of smaller problems. Since the Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm does not use derivatives, no ...

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 ...

YOU MIGHT not have heard of the algorithm that runs the world. Few people have, though it can determine much that goes on in our day-to-day lives: the food we have to eat, our schedule at work, ...