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Graph Theory – Connectivity
Whether it is possible to traverse a graph from one vertex to another is determined…
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Graph Theory – Trees
Trees are graphs that do not contain even a single cycle. They represent hierarchical structure…
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Graph Theory – Types of Graphs
There are various types of graphs depending upon the number of vertices, number of edges,…
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Maximum Matching in Bipartite Graphs
In many situations we are faced with a problem of pairing elements of two sets.…
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The Simplex Method
We have already encountered linear programming (see Section 6.6)—the general problem of optimizing a linear…
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Iterative Improvement
The greedy strategy, considered in the preceding chapter, constructs a solution to an optimization problem…
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Huffman Trees and Codes
Suppose we have to encode a text that comprises symbols from some n-symbol alphabet by assigning…
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Dijkstra’s Algorithm
In this section, we consider the single-source shortest-paths problem: for a given vertex called the source in a…
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Kruskal’s Algorithm
In the previous section, we considered the greedy algorithm that “grows” a mini-mum spanning tree…
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Prim’s Algorithm
The following problem arises naturally in many practical situations: given n points, connect them in the cheapest…