Problem: Maya is 2 km offshore on a boat and wishes to reach a coastal village which is 6 km down the straight shoreline from the point on the shore nearest to the boat. She can row at 2 km/hour and ...

The standard quadratic optimization problem (StQP) refers to the problem of minimizing a quadratic form over the standard simplex. Such a problem arises from numerous applications and is known to be ...

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 ...