An algorithm is a sequence of well-defined steps that defines an abstract solution to a problem. Use this tag when your issue is related to algorithm design.

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Files, Months, Modules and Pseudocode

I am on the final question of a test exam paper and I have become lost in the creation of the algorithm. My defining diagram looks fine however I Just can't work out the order in which to calculate ...
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Difference between ShortestJobFirst and OptimalScheduling

I am reading Algorithm design manual 2nd edition.Can some one explain me the difference between ShortestJobFirst and OptimalScheduling algorithm.The algorithm given are as follows ShortestJobFirst(I) ...
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Optimizing network bandwidth over federated database aggregation jobs

I have a federated database structured as follows: The databases are spread across three geographic locations Multiple databases are clustered at each geographic location Hibernate is running on top ...
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What algorithm use to find the intersection area between polygon and circle?

I have map. On the top of map layer have a polygon A and circle B. They are intersected each others. Any algorithm can calculate the area of intersection C ?
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Query on the soln for agorithm for N-way merge

I have a query with regard to one of the soln proposed for Algorithm for N-way merge The soln proposed by member aioobe is as follows: 1.Create a priority queue 2.Iterate through each file f ...
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algorithm - DFS extremely slow when keeping the visisted nodes

i might be missing something about DFS/DLS, wikipedia doesn’t say visited nodes should be concatenated with the current depth... problem: you have this 2x4 map S=start E=exit ____ E | | | ...
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Online Algorithm for Standard Deviation Proof

I saw this algorithm in an answer to this question. Does this correctly calculate standard deviation? Can someone walk me through why this works mathematically? Preferably working back from this ...
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Algorithm for loading a subway car NYC [closed]

I was standing on the subway the other day and noticed that the area by the doors is always packed as people are less likely to want to go to the middle of the subway car and as this is the entry and ...
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Articulation Points In a Graph

I was going through the algorithm explained to find all the Articulation Points in a Graph , given Here. This is the function which calculates the Art points : // A recursive function that find ...
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Finding points with minimum connectivity distance from room

I am implementing an algorithm to find the minimum spanning corridor in a set of rooms. Currently I have the algorithm figured out, I am just trying to implement it. Part of it involves finding so ...
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Total subtrees under given restrictions

I have a given tree with n nodes. The task is to find the number of subtrees of the given tree with outgoing edges to its complement less than or equal to a given number K. for example: If n=3 and ...
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Code for Longest Common Subsequence is not showing result properly [closed]

I am working for a program that solves the problem of finding the maximum length of Longest common subsequence in given two strings, I've observed it doesn't show me the first character of my 2 ...
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Creating Movie for each Generation of Data

I have the following code: figure; contour(X1,X2,f); hold on plot(top(1:size(top,1)), 'rx'); EDIT figure; for i = 1: G contour(X1,X2,f); hold on plot(top(1:size(top,1)), 'rx'); ...
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Given a Flow Network and an Edge e, Describe an Algorithm that Determines Whether e Crosses Some Minimum Cut

Given a flow network G = (V,E) with a source s, a sink t and and edge e = (u,v), describe an algorithm that determines whether the edge e crosses some minimum cut (S,T). My first idea was to ...
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get the i-th combination of arrays of numbers

I know there are many similar questions, and I have read them for hours. But none of them seems to meet my requirement. My problem: given n int arrays, and each of them has the form array_i[] = ...

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