Most elegant: The Perceptron algorithm. Developed back in the 50s by Rosenblatt and colleagues, this extremely simple algorithm can be viewed as the foundation for some of the most successful ...

, Olivier Gascuel, A Simple, Fast, and Accurate Algorithm to Estimate Large Phylogenies by Maximum Likelihood, Systematic Biology, Vol. 52, No. 5 (Oct., 2003), pp ...

This paper describes a simple algorithm for the solution of very large sequence problems without the use of a computer. It produces approximate solutions to the n job, m machine sequencing problem ...