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courses:cs211:winter2011:journals:charles:chapter6 [2011/03/30 04:30] – [6.8 Shortest Paths in a Graph] gouldccourses:cs211:winter2011:journals:charles:chapter6 [2011/03/30 04:41] – [6.8 Shortest Paths in a Graph] gouldc
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 We do this by incorporating divide-and-conquer principles into our algorithm. I'm slightly confused by the divide-and-conquer component to this problem. In class we did it with the graph in Figure 6.19. We started in the top left and found the shortest path to some midpoint, then we did the same thing from the bottom right. I will need to look in more depth at the pseudo-code on page 288 to get a better grasp of the concept. We do this by incorporating divide-and-conquer principles into our algorithm. I'm slightly confused by the divide-and-conquer component to this problem. In class we did it with the graph in Figure 6.19. We started in the top left and found the shortest path to some midpoint, then we did the same thing from the bottom right. I will need to look in more depth at the pseudo-code on page 288 to get a better grasp of the concept.
 ===== 6.8 Shortest Paths in a Graph ===== ===== 6.8 Shortest Paths in a Graph =====
-This section is about finding the shortest path between two nodes in a directed graph. Each edge has a weightIf there are no negative cycles (cycles that decrease the total cost of the path), then we want the path from s -> t that minimizes the total edge costs... the shortest path.+Shortest path in a directed graph where negative edges are possibleFor this reason Dijkstra's Algorithm doesn't always work(We cannot grow the blob, but we can build up partial solutions under the constraint that we can only use i edges.) In this problem we assume there are no negative cycles (cycles that decrease the total cost of the path); otherwise you could follow the cycle infinitely many times and reduce the cost to negative infinity.
  
-starting node and destination node with minimum total costEach edge in the graph has an associated weight+We want the path from -> that minimizes the total edge costs but that uses at most i edges(6.22) says that the longest possible optimal path has n-1 edges
-This section is about using a memoized array to keep track of the shortest paths in a graph. The new method is contrasted with Dijkstra's Algorithm...which requires us to+ 
 +(6.23) //OPT(i,v) = min(OPT(i-1,v), min_w(OPT(i-1,w) + cw))//
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