Difference and advantages between dijkstra & A star

It says A* is faster than using dijkstra and uses best-first-search to speed things up. A* is basically an informed variation of Dijkstra.A* is considered a “best first search” because it greedily chooses which vertex to explore next, according to the value of f(v) [f(v) = h(v) + g(v)] – where h is the heuristic and g is the cost so … Read more

A proper way to create a matrix in c++

Note that also you can use boost.ublas for matrix creation and manipulation and also boost.graph to represent and manipulate graphs in a number of ways, as well as using algorithms on them, etc. Edit: Anyway, doing a range-check version of a vector for your purposes is not a hard thing: Note that you would also need to add the … Read more

Understanding Time complexity calculation for Dijkstra Algorithm

Dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm is O(ElogV) where: V is the number of vertices E is the total number of edges Your analysis is correct, but your symbols have different meanings! You say the algorithm is O(VElogV) where: V is the number of vertices E is the maximum number of edges attached to a single node. Let’s rename your E to N. So one analysis says O(ElogV) and another … Read more