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In this post, we will understand the differences between the greedy algorithm and dynamic programming methods.Greedy algorithmIt is an algorithmic paradigm that builds up on a solution in parts, step by step. The next step is chosen such that it gives the most obvious and immediate benefit.Problems that involve choosing local optimal values will help in choosing the global optimal values/solution to the problem. Such ate the problems associated with greedy algorithm.There is no surety that a greedy algorithm would lead to an optimal solution.An optimal choice is made at every stage of the problem, i.e the local optimal solution.It ... Read More

It is similar to the previous algorithm. Here the only difference is, the Graph G(V, E) is represented by an adjacency list.Time complexity adjacency list representation is O(E log V).Input and OutputInput: The cost matrix: Output: Edge: A--B And Cost: 1 Edge: B--E And Cost: 2 Edge: A--C And Cost: 3 Edge: A--D And Cost: 4 Edge: E--F And Cost: 2 Edge: F--G And Cost: 3 Total Cost: 15Algorithmprims(g: Graph, start)Input −  The graph g and the seed vertex named ‘start’Output − The Tree after adding edges.Begin    create two set B, N    add the start node in B ... Read More

There is a connected graph G(V, E) and the weight or cost for every edge is given. Prim’s Algorithm will find the minimum spanning tree from the graph G. It is a growing tree approach. This algorithm needs a seed value to start the tree. The seed vertex is grown to form the whole tree.The problem will be solved using two sets. One set holds the nodes that are already selected, and another set holds the item those are not considered yet. From the seed vertex, it takes adjacent vertices, based on minimum edge cost, thus it grows the tree by ... Read More

A list of arrival and departure time is given. Now the problem is to find the minimum number of platforms are required for the railway as no train waits.By sorting all timings in sorted order, we can find the solution easily, it will be easy to track when the train has arrived but not left the station.The time complexity of this problem is O(n Log n).Input and OutputInput: Lists of arrival time and departure time. Arrival: {900, 940, 950, 1100, 1500, 1800} Departure: {910, 1200, 1120, 1130, 1900, 2000} Output: Minimum Number of Platforms Required: 3AlgorithmminPlatform(arrival, departure, int n)Input − The ... Read More

There is a list of coin C(c1, c2, ……Cn) is given and a value V is also given. Now the problem is to use the minimum number of coins to make the chance V.Note − Assume there are an infinite number of coins CIn this problem, we will consider a set of different coins C{1, 2, 5, 10} are given, There is an infinite number of coins of each type. To make change the requested value we will try to take the minimum number of coins of any type.As an example, for value 22 − we will choose {10, 10, 2}, ... Read More

In the previous Huffman code problem, the frequency was not sorted. If the frequency list is given in sorted order, the task of assigning code is being more efficient.In this problem, we will use two empty queues. Then create a leaf node for each unique character and insert it into the queue in increasing order of frequency.In this approach, the complexity of the algorithm is O(n).Input and OutputInput: Different letters and their frequency in sorted order Letters: {L, K, X, C, E, B, A, F} Frequency: {1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4} Output: Codes for the letters L: ... Read More

Huffman coding is a lossless data compression algorithm. In this algorithm, a variable-length code is assigned to input different characters. The code length is related to how frequently characters are used. Most frequent characters have the smallest codes and longer codes for least frequent characters.There are mainly two parts. First one to create a Huffman tree, and another one to traverse the tree to find codes.For an example, consider some strings “YYYZXXYYX”, the frequency of character Y is larger than X and the character Z has the least frequency. So the length of the code for Y is smaller than ... Read More

There is a given graph G(V, E) with its adjacency list representation, and a source vertex is also provided. Dijkstra’s algorithm to find the minimum shortest path between source vertex to any other vertex of the graph G.To Solve this problem, we will use two lists. One is to store vertices which have been considered as the shortest path tree, and another will hold the vertices which are not considered yet. In each phase of the algorithm, we find the unconsidered vertex and which has the minimum distance from the source.Another list is used to hold the predecessor node. Using ... Read More

There are n different activities are given with their starting time and ending time. Select the maximum number of activities to solve by a single person. We will use the greedy approach to find the next activity whose finish time is minimum among rest activities, and the start time is more than or equal with the finish time of the last selected activity.The complexity of this problem is O(n log n) when the list is not sorted.When the sorted list is provided the complexity will be O(n).Input and OutputInput: A list of different activities with starting and ending times. {(5, ... Read More