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Travelling Salesman, by director Timothy Lanzone, is the story of four mathematicians hired by the U.S. government to solve the most elusive problem in computer-science history: P vs. NP. Solutions to the problem are used by mathematician Bob Bosche in a subgenre called TSP art. See also. Canadian traveller problem; Exact algorithm
Problem statement[edit] Five philosophers dine together at the same table. Each philosopher has his own plate at the table. There is a fork between each plate. The dish served is a kind of spaghetti which has to be eaten with two forks. Each philosopher can only alternately think and eat. Moreover, a philosopher can only eat his spaghetti when ...
Chinese postman problem. A worked example of an undirected Chinese postman problem: 1. Each street must be traversed at least once, starting and ending at the post office at A. 2. Four vertices with odd degree (orange) are found on its equivalent graph. 3. The pairing with the lowest total length is found. 4.
The set cover problem is a classical question in combinatorics, computer science, operations research, and complexity theory. Given a set of elements {1, 2, …, n } (called the universe ) and a collection S of m subsets whose union equals the universe, the set cover problem is to identify the smallest sub-collection of S whose union equals the ...
Quadratic programming. Quadratic programming ( QP) is the process of solving certain mathematical optimization problems involving quadratic functions. Specifically, one seeks to optimize (minimize or maximize) a multivariate quadratic function subject to linear constraints on the variables.
Means–ends analysis [1] ( MEA) is a problem solving technique used commonly in artificial intelligence (AI) for limiting search in AI programs. It is also a technique used at least since the 1950s as a creativity tool, most frequently mentioned in engineering books on design methods. MEA is also related to means–ends chain approach used ...
Nonlinear programming. In mathematics, nonlinear programming ( NLP) is the process of solving an optimization problem where some of the constraints are not linear equalities or the objective function is not a linear function. An optimization problem is one of calculation of the extrema (maxima, minima or stationary points) of an objective ...
Wicked problem. In planning and policy, a wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. It refers to an idea or problem that cannot be fixed, where there is no single solution to the problem; and "wicked" denotes ...