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Dijkstra Algorithm

Dijkstra's Algorithm, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra in 1956, is one of the most fundamental algorithms in computer science for solving the single-source shortest path problem. It finds the shortest path from a starting vertex to all other vertices in a weighted graph with non-negative edge weights.

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Dijkstra Algorithm for Shortest Path
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / operations-research
  • Dijkstra, E. W. (1959). A note on two problems in connexion with graphs. Numerische Mathematik, 1(1), 269-271. · DOI 10.1007/BF01386390
  • Cormen, T. H., Leiserson, C. E., Rivest, R. L., & Stein, C. (2009). Introduction to Algorithms (3rd ed.). MIT Press. · ISBN 978-0-262-03384-8
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