In the teaching of computer science, metaphors and analogies are especially fitting: the essence of algorithms is abstract discrete structures, and to help learners quickly grasp the logic within, we ...

Edsger Dijkstra, one of the moving forces behind the acceptance of computer programming as a scientific discipline, has died. But his legacy lives on in every computer. Rupert started off as a nerdy ...

The paper considers a project scheduling problem in weighted directed graphs in which arcs represent operations while nodes are identified with starting and finishing endpoints of the operations; arc ...