Advanced Graph Algorithm =================================== Minimum Spanning Tree --------------------------- Properites: # It's a tree which means there's no cycle # It's based on non-directed graph How to find a spanning tree? Core idea is to use greedy algorithm and for each step find the edge with minimum weight. Two ways to build: # Kruskal's algorithm: Sort the edge based on weight, then adding each edge to the tree without forming a cycle. # Prim's algorithm Starting from any vertex, insert the adjacent vertices into PQ, and choose the vertex with minimum edge weight Data Structure: Priority Queue Union Find Dijkstra's algorithm ------------------------------------------------------- Single Source Shortest Path Dijkstra's algorithm initializing dist[s] to 0 and all other distTo[] entries to positive infinity. Then, it repeatedly relaxes and adds to the tree a non-tree vertex with the lowest distTo[] value, continuing until all vertices are on the tree or no non-tree vertex has a finite distTo[] value. Data Structures: . Priority Queue . Edges on the shortest-paths tree: edgeTo[v] is the the last edge on a shortest path from s to v. . Distance to the source: distTo[v] is the length of the shortest path from s to v. Edge_weighted DAG Negative Cycles: Bellman-Ford algorithm. Initialize distTo[s] to 0 and all other distTo[] values to infinity. Then, considering the digraph's edges in any order, and relax all edges. Make V such passes:: for (int pass = 0; pass < G.V(); pass++) for (int v = 0; v < G.V(); v++) for (DirectedEdge e : G.adj(v)) relax(e); Arbitrage detection. Consider a market for financial transactions that is based on trading commodities.