The "knapsack problem" is a widespread computing challenge—and no, it doesn't have to do just with literal backpacks. golubovy / iStock Imagine you’re a thief robbing a museum exhibit of tantalizing ...

When Knapsack called it quits after 1998’s This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now, it probably didn’t feel like they were going anywhere. The Davis, California quartet weren’t about to break ...

Research team debuts the first deterministic streaming algorithms for non-monotone submodular maximization, delivering superior approximation ratios with minimal memory and real-time throughput on ...