A race in a hedge maze! You are determined to win even at the cost of a little...shortcut, which the rulesforgot to mention. However, you are not willing to crawl through the hedge more than once, because someonemight see you and...misunderstand.The maze is described as a graph with a start, goal, edge lengths, and two types of edges: regular paths in themaze, and hedges which one can crawl through. (Some parts of the maze are too thick to crawl through.)Design an algorithm which finds the shortest path to the goal, as quickly as possible.

To solve this problem, we can use a modified version of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm. The…

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Operations Research : Applications and Algorithms

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ISBN:9780534380588

Author:Wayne L. Winston

Publisher:Wayne L. Winston

Chapter19: Probabilistic Dynamic Programming

Section19.4: Further Examples Of Probabilistic Dynamic Programming Formulations

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