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In this post, we will understand the differences between Prim's and Kruskal's algorithms.Kruskal's algorithm for Mininum Spanning Tree (MST)When a connected and undirected graph is given, a spanning tree of such a graph is the subgraph which is a tree that connects all of the vertices.A single graph can have multiple spanning trees.A minimum spanning tree (MST) (also known as minimum weight spanning tree) for a weighted, connected and undirected graph is a spanning tree that weighs less than or equal to the weight of every other spanning tree.The weight of a spanning tree is determined by adding the weights ... Read More

Instead of giving a single shortest path, Yen’s k-shortest path algorithm gives k shortest paths so that we can get the second shortest path and the third shortest path and so on.Let us consider a scenario that we have to travel from place A to place B and there are multiple routes available between place A and place B, but we have to find the shortest path and neglect all the paths that are less considered in terms of its time complexity in order to reach the destination.Let us understand with an example-Consider the given example as the bridge which ... Read More

Expression treesExpression trees are those in which the leaf nodes have the values to be operated, and internal nodes contain the operator on which the leaf node will be performed.Example4 + ((7 + 9) * 2) will have an expression tree as followsAlgorithm to Construct an Expression TreeLet T be the expression tree.If T is not NULL:   If T->data is an operand:      return T.data   A = solve(T.left)   B = solve(T.right)   --> Calculate operator for 'T.data' on A and B, and call recursively,       return calculate(A, B, T.data)How to construct an expression tree?To construct an Expression Tree for ... Read More

DefinitionThe Dijkstra’s algorithm finds the shortest path from a particular node, called the source node to every other node in a connected graph. It produces a shortest path tree with the source node as the root. It is profoundly used in computer networks to generate optimal routes with the aim of minimizing routing costs.Dijkstra’s AlgorithmInput − A graph representing the network; and a source node, sOutput − A shortest path tree, spt[], with s as the root node.Initializations −An array of distances dist[] of size |V| (number of nodes), where dist[s] = 0 and dist[u] = ∞ (infinite), where u ... Read More

Flooding and fixed routing are methods to transmit data packets from the source to the destination through a number of intermediate routers connected by transmission lines.Flooding is a non-adaptive routing technique following this simple method − when a data packet arrives at a router, it is sent to all the outgoing links except the one it has arrived on.Fixed routing algorithm is a procedure that lays down a fixed route or path to transfer data packets from source to the destination. The route is a mathematically computed best path, i.e. “least–cost path” that the packet can be routed through. The ... Read More

Red Black Tree is a Self-Balanced Binary Search Tree in which each node of the tree is colored with either Red or Black. There are three types of operations we can perform on a Red Black Tree – Searching, Insertion and Deletion.Let us suppose we have to insert an element in the following Red Black Tree.To insert an element in a red-black tree the idea is very simple − we perform insertion just like we insert in a regular binary tree. We start off from the root node by checking the color of the node and insert it into a ... Read More

Floyd Cycle is one of the cycle detection algorithms to detect the cycle in a given singly linked list.In the Floyd Cycle algorithm, we have two pointers that initially point at the head. In Hare and Tortoise’s story, Hare moves twice as fast as Tortoise, and whenever the hare reaches the end of the path, the tortoise reaches the middle of the path.AlgorithmInitialize Hare and Tortoise at the head node of the List.Initially, the hare moves twice as fast as the tortoise.Move the hare and tortoise both and find if the hare reaches the end of the Linked List, return ... Read More

We have a Trie, and when a user enters a character, we have to show the matching string the Trie. This feature we call it as auto-completion. For example, if a Trie contains "xyzzzz, ""xyz, " "xxxyyxzzz" and when the user enter xy, then we have to show them xyzzzz, xyz, etc.., Steps to achieve the result.Search for the string using the standard Trie algorithm.If the string is not present, then return -1.If the string is present and is the end of a word in Trie, then print the string.If the matching string doesn't have any node, then return.Else print ... Read More

In this section we will see what is the segment tree. Before discussing that, let us see one problem.Suppose we have an array arr[0, …, n-1], We can do following operations −Find the sum of elements from index l to r, where 0 ≤ l ≤ r ≤ n-1Change the value of a specified element of the array to a new value x. We need to do arr[i] = x. The i in range 0 to n – 1.We can solve this problem by using the Segment tree. The segment tree can help us to get the sum and query ... Read More

In this section we will see what is the interval tree. As the name suggests, that the interval trees are the trees which are associated with the intervals. So before discussing about the interval trees, let us see the elementary intervals.An interval is basically a range. So if one interval is written as [a, b] it indicates that the range is starting from a, and ending at b.Now suppose there is an interval [10, 20]. So there are three range values. First one is -∞ to 10, 10 to 20 and finally 20 to ∞Now, suppose we will create second ... Read More