• computer science, the longest path problem is the problem of finding a simple path of maximum length in a given graph. A path is called simple if it...
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    vertex-disjoint paths of length at most k. Glossary of graph theory Path graph Polygonal chain Shortest path problem Longest path problem Dijkstra's algorithm...
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    shortest path problem. A* search algorithm Bellman–Ford algorithm Euclidean shortest path Floyd–Warshall algorithm Johnson's algorithm Longest path problem Parallel...
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    In graph theory, the shortest path problem is the problem of finding a path between two vertices (or nodes) in a graph such that the sum of the weights...
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  • path problem, directed and undirected.: GT37, GT38, GT39  Induced subgraph isomorphism problem Graph intersection number: GT59  Longest path problem: ND29 ...
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    substructure. Longest common subsequence problem Longest increasing subsequence Longest palindromic substring All-Pairs Shortest Path Any problem that can...
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  • The longest uncrossed (or nonintersecting) knight's path is a mathematical problem involving a knight on the standard 8×8 chessboard or, more generally...
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    The problem of finding the longest induced path or cycle in a hypercube, first posed by Kautz (1958), is known as the snake-in-the-box problem, and it...
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    identify its longest series of dependent activities (its longest path). These tools can display the critical path (and near-critical path activities if...
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    longest common substring: unlike substrings, subsequences are not required to occupy consecutive positions within the original sequences. The problem...
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    Hamiltonian path. The computational problems of determining whether such paths and cycles exist in graphs are NP-complete; see Hamiltonian path problem for details...
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  • minimum spanning tree of a set of points in the plane Longest path problem: find a simple path of maximum length in a given graph Minimum spanning tree...
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    boards. The knight's tour problem is an instance of the more general Hamiltonian path problem in graph theory. The problem of finding a closed knight's...
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    computational complexity of the problem; see Hamiltonian path problem. Another related problem is the bottleneck travelling salesman problem: Find a Hamiltonian cycle...
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  • Motion planning, also path planning (also known as the navigation problem or the piano mover's problem) is a computational problem to find a sequence of...
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    Snake-in-the-box (category Computational problems in graph theory)
    finding the longest possible induced path in a hypercube; it can be viewed as a special case of the induced subgraph isomorphism problem. There is a similar...
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    algorithms for the longest decreasing subsequence problem. Conversely, every instance of the longest decreasing subsequence problem can be described equivalently...
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    NP-hardness (redirect from NP-Hard Problem)
    optimization problem Minimum vertex cover Maximum clique Longest simple path Graph coloring; an application: register allocation in compilers Lists of problems List...
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    shortest paths from a single source vertex to all of the other vertices in a weighted digraph. It is slower than Dijkstra's algorithm for the same problem, but...
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  • its vertex-deleted subgraphs. The snake-in-the-box problem: what is the longest possible induced path in an n {\displaystyle n} -dimensional hypercube graph...
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  • resulting matrix describes the longest path distances in the graph. Sorting the vertices by the lengths of their longest incoming paths produces a topological...
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    take a team of workers to perform the task. The longest path in this DAG represents the critical path of the project, the one that controls the total...
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    pieces of the chessboard. A famous such problem is the knight's tour, in which one is to determine the path of a knight that visits each square of the...
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  • Induced paths are induced subgraphs that are paths. The shortest path between any two vertices in an unweighted graph is always an induced path, because...
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    is of length at least s. Longest increasing subsequence problem Erdős, Paul; Szekeres, George (1935), "A combinatorial problem in geometry", Compositio...
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    through the Holland Tunnel. The 81-day strike was the longest in PATH's history. Substantial growth in PATH ridership during the 1980s required expansion and...
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  • Determining if a particle path of an ideal fluid on a three dimensional domain eventually reaches a certain region in space. The problem of determining if a...
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    tradition, Peter headed the church for 35 years, and has thus far been the longest-reigning pope in the history of the Catholic Church. Nowadays, the newly...
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    different shortest paths. From every arbitrary distribution of disks, there are one or two different longest non-self-crossing paths to move all disks...
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    the critical path and if any activities have slack. The critical path is the path that takes the longest to complete. To determine the path times, add the...
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