Chapter 29.5, Problem 29.5.3CP

Program Plan Intro

Weighted Graph:

A graph is termed as weighted graph if each edge of the graph is assigned a weight. The weighted edges stored in the weighted graphs can be stored in adjacency lists.

Weighted edges can be represented using a two-dimensional array. An weighted edge can be represented as “WeightedEdge(u,v,w)”, where “u” and “v” are edges and “w” represents the weight between them.

Example of storing edge in a weighted graph:

Object[][] edges =

{ new Integer(0), new Integer(1), new SomeTypeForWeight(8) };

Dijkstra’s Algorithm:

In computer science, the Dijkstra’s Algorithm is a greedy algorithm that is used compute the minimal distance from a node to all the other nodes in a weighted graph.