# Optimization and Search Problems

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/optimization-and-search-problems-2/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 365,852 |
| Description | This cluster of papers focuses on the development and analysis of online algorithms for distributed coordination of mobile robots, with applications in areas such as ad auctions, resource allocation, stochastic matching, and rendezvous search. The research explores techniques for competitive analysis, learning automata, and buffer management in the context of online robotics. |
| Domain | Physical Sciences |
| Field | Computer Science |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/T12288 |
| Works | 31,280 |

## Topic researchers

Showing 12 of 20.

- [Ilya Sutskever](https://scholariq.org/researchers/ilya-sutskever/)
- [Seyedali Mirjalili](https://scholariq.org/researchers/seyedali-mirjalili/)
- [Stephen Boyd](https://scholariq.org/researchers/stephen-boyd/)
- [Guanrong Chen](https://scholariq.org/researchers/guanrong-chen/)
- [Scott Shenker](https://scholariq.org/researchers/scott-shenker/)
- [Robert E. Schapire](https://scholariq.org/researchers/robert-e-schapire/)
- [Sebastian Thrun](https://scholariq.org/researchers/sebastian-thrun/)
- [Zhu Han](https://scholariq.org/researchers/zhu-han/)
- [Dusit Niyato](https://scholariq.org/researchers/dusit-niyato/)
- [Jon Kleinberg](https://scholariq.org/researchers/jon-kleinberg/)
- [Marco Dorigo](https://scholariq.org/researchers/marco-dorigo/)
- [Leonidas Guibas](https://scholariq.org/researchers/leonidas-guibas/)

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