Passing Messages to Lonely Numbers

Guest editors Isabel Beichl and Francis Sullivan discuss the field of combinatorics in general and the articles in this special issue in particular, highlighting the recent upsurge in research in this area as well as some interesting applications of it (...

A rich variety of tools help researchers with high-performance numerical computing, but few tools exist for large-scale combinatorial computing. The authors describe their efforts to build a common infrastructure for numerical and combinatorial ...

The binary contingency tables problem has sparked the interest of statisticians and computer scientists alike. Although it's been studied from both theoretical and practical perspectives, a truly usable algorithm remains elusive. The author presents ...