Abstract: The approximation problem of network synthesis is surveyed with extensive reference to the recent literature, encompassing both the frequency and the time domains. The topics reviewed ...

The travelling salesman problem (TSP) remains one of the most challenging NP‐hard problems in combinatorial optimisation, with significant implications for logistics, network design and route planning ...

Not long ago, a team of researchers from Stanford and McGill universities broke a 35-year record in computer science by an almost imperceptible margin — four hundredths of a trillionth of a trillionth ...