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Bellman-Ford Algorithm

The Bellman-Ford Algorithm, developed by Richard Bellman and Lester R. Ford in the 1950s, is a fundamental algorithm for computing shortest paths in weighted graphs that may contain negative edge weights. Unlike Dijkstra's algorithm, it correctly handles negative weights and can detect the presence of negative-weight cycles.

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Bellman-Ford Algorithm for Shortest Path
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / operations-research
  • Bellman, R. (1958). On a routing problem. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 16(1), 87-90. · DOI 10.1090/qam/102435
  • Ford, L. R. (1956). Network Flow Theory. RAND Corporation Paper P-923. · URL
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