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A class of label-correcting methods for the K shortest paths problem
Francesca GuerrieroRoberto MusmannoValerio LacagninaA. Pecorellasubject
Discrete mathematicsManagement Science and Operations ResearchComputer Science ApplicationsEuclidean shortest pathShortest Path Faster AlgorithmSettore SECS-S/06 -Metodi Mat. dell'Economia e d. Scienze Attuariali e Finanz.Shortest path problemK shortest path routingCanadian traveller problemYen's algorithmConstrained Shortest Path FirstDistanceK shortest paths problem label correcting methodsMathematicsdescription
In this paper we deal with the problem of finding the first K shortest paths from a single origin node to all other nodes of a directed graph. In particular, we define the necessary and sufficient conditions for a set of distance label vectors, on the basis of which we propose a class of methods which can be viewed as an extension of the generic label-correcting method for solving the classical single-origin all-destinations shortest path problem. The data structure used is characterized by a set of K lists of candidate nodes, and the proposed methods differ in the strategy used to select the node to be extracted at each iteration. The computational results show that: 1. some label-correcting methods are generally much faster than the double sweep method of Shier (1979); 2. the most efficient node selection strategies, used for solving the classical single-origin all-destinations shortest path problem, have proved to be effective also in the case of the K shortest paths.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-06-01 |