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Algorithm of the Week: Kruskal's Minimum Spanning Tree

Introduction One of the two main algorithms in finding the minimum spanning tree algorithms is the algorithm of Kruskal. Before getting into the details,...

0 replies - 3702 views - 11/13/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Minimum Spanning Tree

Introduction Here’s a classical task on graphs. We have a group of cities and we must wire them to provide them all with electricity. Out of all...

0 replies - 4433 views - 11/06/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Shortest Path in a Directed Acyclic Graph

Introduction We saw how to find the shortest path in a graph with positive edges using the Dijkstra’s algorithm. We also know how to find the shortest...

0 replies - 3814 views - 10/29/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

The Algorithms of Memory

Originally posted by Eric Burnett, a software engineer at Google on thelowlyprogrammer.comThe human brain has the best storage system on the block in a lot of...

0 replies - 4054 views - 10/29/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Bellman-Ford Shortest Path in a Graph

Introduction As we saw in the previous post, Dijkstra's algorithm is very useful when it comes to finding all the shortest paths in a weighted graph....

0 replies - 3881 views - 10/22/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Dijkstra Shortest Path in a Graph

Introduction We already know how we can find the shortest paths in a graph starting from a given vertex. Practically we modified breadth-first search in...

0 replies - 5169 views - 10/15/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Shortest Path in a Graph

Introduction Since with graphs we can represent real-life problems it’s almost clear why we would need an efficient algorithm that calculates the...

2 replies - 7000 views - 10/09/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Graph Best-First Search

Introduction So far we know how to implement graph depth-first and breadth-first searches. These two approaches are crucial in order to understand graph...

0 replies - 3758 views - 09/25/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Algorithm Books Reviews

To be sure to be well prepared for an interview, I decided to read several Algorithms book. I also chosen books in order to have information about data...

0 replies - 4681 views - 09/17/12 by Baptiste Wicht in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Graph Breadth First Search

Since we already know how to represent graphs, we can go further for some very simple approaches of walking through them. Passing by all the vertices of a...

2 replies - 4524 views - 09/10/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Quicksort - the Easy Way

Quick sort is the fastest known comparision sort for arrays. To top it, it could be done in-place for arrays. For Linked Lists, Merge Sort might be a...

6 replies - 3458 views - 09/07/12 by Arun Manivannan in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Graphs and their Representation

Introduction Although this post is supposed to be about algorithms I’ll cover more on graphs and their computer representation. I consider this very...

0 replies - 5563 views - 09/04/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Exploring Streaming Algorithms - Part 1

From Wikipedia - "Streaming algorithms are algorithms for processing data streams in which the input is presented as a sequence of items and can be...

0 replies - 2493 views - 09/02/12 by Nishant Chandra in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Finding the Lowest Common Ancestor

Introduction Here’s one task related to the tree data structure. Given two nodes, can you find their lowest common ancestor? As a matter of fact, this...

0 replies - 5506 views - 08/27/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Algorithm Used for World Record Pi Calculations

The following algorithm is based on work of Ramanujan and has been used in several world-record calculations of pi. Initialize a0 = 6 – 4 √2 and y0 = √2...

0 replies - 4747 views - 08/20/12 by John Cook in Articles