Dynamic optimization and optimal control problems form the backbone of numerous applications in engineering, economics and the natural sciences. These methodologies involve determining a time-varying ...

Dynamic stochastic matching problems arise in a variety of recent applications, ranging from ridesharing and online video games to kidney exchange. Such problems are naturally formulated as Markov ...

We develop a novel framework, the implicit hitting set approach, for solving a class of combinatorial optimization problems. The explicit hitting set problem is as follows: given a set U and a family ...

Theoretical physicists have proposed a scalable quantum computer architecture. The new model overcomes fundamental limitations of programmability in current approaches that aim at solving real-world ...

A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a potentially more effective way of helping computers solve some of the toughest optimization problems they face. Their ...

Games can be easy to construct but difficult to solve due to current methods available for finding the Nash Equilibrium. This issue is one of many that face modern game theorists and those analysts ...