Network design problems constitute a critical area in operations research and engineering, where the objective is to construct or upgrade network infrastructures optimally under a range of constraints ...
The maximum-flow problem, or max flow, is one of the most basic problems in computer science. MIT researchers, together with colleagues at Yale and the University of Southern California, have ...
The question of how best to transport items across a network–be that traffic over the Internet, or cars over the U.S. highway system–is one that has challenged mathematicians and computer scientists ...