Shortest path algorithms sit at the heart of modern graph theory and many of the systems that move people, data, and goods around the world. After nearly seventy years of relying on the same classic ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

The Department of Marine Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China Coverage path planning (CPP) for target search by autonomous unmanned vehicle (AUV) involves two crucial aspects: (1) the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a ...

If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a slippery concept. Perhaps one day there’s an accident or road closure ...

This project solves the problem of transporting heavy loads between cities by finding viable paths through viaducts with height restrictions, using a modified Dijkstra's algorithm for optimal routing.

For more advanced usages you can fallback to use the version of the algorithm that is not hidden behind an extension method. This example sets up a Dijkstra shortest path algorithm and computes the ...

Abstract: Dijkstra algorithm is a single-source shortest path algorithm, and the result is the shortest distance from the source node to the destination node. In the parking guidance process, the ...