Sequence alignment methods often use something called a 'dynamic programming' algorithm. What is dynamic programming and how does it work?

The policy iteration method of dynamic programming is studied in an abstract setting. It is shown to be equivalent to the Newton-Kantorovich iteration procedure applied to the functional equation of ...

In the linear programming approach to approximate dynamic programming, one tries to solve a certain linear program-the ALP-that has a relatively small number K of variables but an intractable number M ...