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 ...

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 ...

This algorithm solves the minimum-cost maximum-flow problem for networks that incrementally change as new connections are added. Furthermore, in a second paper accepted by the IEEE Symposium on ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...