Iteration is the process of repeating steps. For example, a very simple algorithm for eating breakfast cereal might consist of these steps: put cereal in bowl add milk to cereal spoon cereal and milk ...

If you are planning a trip through several cities and want to find the shortest route, you resort to algorithms, a well-defined sequence of deterministic operations. This article accompanies the ...

Computer scientists have written a network flow algorithm that computes almost as fast as is mathematically possible. This algorithm computes the maximum traffic flow with minimum transport costs for ...