A well-established mathematical algorithm known as dynamic programming, combined with advances in personal computing power, now allows straightforward optimization of fixed-bed catalyst life ...

Among the other strategies, they find that the closest match to their optimal dynamic programming solution is the RMD-styled strategy with a fixed 90% stock allocation. Next is a 6.8% fixed ...

It covers basic algorithm design techniques such as divide and conquer, dynamic programming, and greedy algorithms. It concludes with a brief introduction to intractability (NP-completeness) .