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Beginning Java Data Structures and Algorithms
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Beginning Java Data Structures and Algorithms

by James Cutajar
July 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
202 pages
5h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Single Source Shortest Path: Dijkstra's Algorithm

When we explored BFS, we saw that it was able to solve the shortest path problem for unweighted graphs, or graphs whose edges have the same (positive) weight. What if we are dealing with weighted graphs? Can we do better? We shall see that Dijkstra's algorithm provides an improvement over the ideas presented in BFS and that it is an efficient algorithm for solving the single-source shortest path problem. One restriction for working with Dijkstra's algorithm is that edges' weights have to be positive. This is usually not a big issue since most graphs represent entities modeled by edges with positive weights. Nonetheless, there are algorithms capable of solving the problem for negative weights. ...

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