* Why do you want to base this on Dijkstra's algorithm, which is designed to find a single shortest-path? Surely there are better options for your base implementation. A quick Google search suggests a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Here is a problem I'm working on. Say you have a weighted, directed graph with n vertices and m edges, and you want to find the shortest path from s to all other vertices, *but* you can only use some ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Two computer scientists found — in the unlikeliest of places — just the idea they needed to make a big leap in graph theory. This past October, as Jacob Holm and Eva Rotenberg were thumbing through a ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.