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 ...

Previous max-flow algorithms have come at the problem one edge, or path, at a time, Kelner says. So for example, when sending items from node A to node B, the algorithms would transmit some of the ...

The new algorithm is “absurdly fast,” said Daniel Spielman of Yale University. “I was actually inclined to believe … algorithms this good for this problem would not exist.” Maximum flow has been ...

Researchers have devised an "absurdly fast" algorithm to solve the problem of finding the fastest flow through a network.

The algorithm developed by Kelner and his four colleagues chooses to solve the max-flow problem by analyzing all potential paths at the same time.

We present the results of a computational investigation of the pseudoflow and push-relabel algorithms for the maximum flow and minimum s-t cut problems. The two algorithms were tested on several ...

For the maximum flow problem there are a number of very efficient algorithms that have been developed over the last decade. On the other hand, the algorithm that is most commonly used by the mining ...

Previous max-flow algorithms have come at the problem one edge, or path, at a time, Kelner says.