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Breadth-first search (BFS) is an algorithm for searching a tree data structure for a node that satisfies a given property. It starts at the tree root and explores all nodes at the present depth prior to moving on to the nodes at the next depth level.
The breadth-first-search algorithm is a way to explore the vertices of a graph layer by layer. It is a basic algorithm in graph theory which can be used as a part of other graph algorithms. For instance, BFS is used by Dinic's algorithm to find maximum flow in a graph.
By contrast, a breadth-first search will never reach the grandchildren, as it seeks to exhaust the children first. A more sophisticated analysis of running time can be given via infinite ordinal numbers ; for example, the breadth-first search of the depth 2 tree above will take ω ·2 steps: ω for the first level, and then another ω for the ...
Breadth-first search can be viewed as a special-case of Dijkstra's algorithm on unweighted graphs, where the priority queue degenerates into a FIFO queue. The fast marching method can be viewed as a continuous version of Dijkstra's algorithm which computes the geodesic distance on a triangle mesh.
Beam search uses breadth-first search to build its search tree. At each level of the tree, it generates all successors of the states at the current level, sorting them in increasing order of heuristic cost. [2] However, it only stores a predetermined number, , of best states at each level (called the beam width). Only those states are expanded ...
We should either have only a pseudocode implementation, or maybe Python or some other reads-mostly-like-pseudocode language if it can be made sufficiently close to pseudocode. The fact that java.util.LinkedList is in the example suggests to me that the example says more about Java than about BFS. —Ben FrantzDale 12:53, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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The algorithm is called lexicographic breadth-first search because the order it produces is an ordering that could also have been produced by a breadth-first search, and because if the ordering is used to index the rows and columns of an adjacency matrix of a graph then the algorithm sorts the rows and columns into lexicographical order.