Robots often move inefficiently due to slow mathematical computations. Now, a new method called Web of Affine Spaces (WASP) ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Jun., 1995), pp. 900-923 (24 pages) A simple algorithm for the computation of local minima of nonconvex problems in one dimension is proposed. This ...

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 ...