Algorithms: Success and New Challenges

Many business activities require planning and optimization, this is also true for engineering design, Internet routing, transport scheduling, objective-oriented task management and many other design activities. In fact, optimization is everywhere, the most important part of optimization is the core algorithms used to find optimal solutions to a given problem, though in many cases such algorithms may not exist at all. Search Strategy Let us start by asking a question: suppose you are told there is a treasure in a vast forest, and the treasure, such as a big diamond or a million dollars, is your reward; you are given a limited time, say, a week, to find it. What is your best strategy to find this treasure as quickly as possible? One strategy is to search the promising areas in the vast forest yourself, inch by inch, and if the treasure is found, it is yours. As th