Military Operations Research, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2009), pp. 31-52 (22 pages) We formulate and solve aircraftrouting problems that arise when planning missions for military aircraft that are subject to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A general procedure is presented for computing the best, 2nd best, ⋯, Kth best solutions to a given discrete optimization problem. If the ...

Physicist Albert Einstein famously posited that if he only had an hour to crack a daunting problem, he'd devote 55 minutes to understanding it and only five minutes to crafting a solution. Einstein ...

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 ...