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  2. A* search algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The A* algorithm has real-world applications. In this example, edges are railroads and h(x) is the great-circle distance (the shortest possible distance on a sphere) to the target. The algorithm is searching for a path between Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

  3. Algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Most algorithms are implemented on particular hardware/software platforms and their algorithmic efficiency is tested using real code. The efficiency of a particular algorithm may be insignificant for many "one-off" problems but it may be critical for algorithms designed for fast interactive, commercial or long life scientific usage.

  4. Jump point search - Wikipedia

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    Harabor and Grastien's original publication provides algorithms for neighbor pruning and identifying successors. [1] The original algorithm for neighbor pruning allowed corner-cutting to occur, which meant the algorithm could only be used for moving agents with zero width, limiting its application to either real-life agents (e.g., robotics) or simulations (e.g., many games).

  5. List of algorithms - Wikipedia

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    An algorithm is fundamentally a set of rules or defined procedures that is typically designed and used to solve a specific problem or a broad set of problems.. Broadly, algorithms define process(es), sets of rules, or methodologies that are to be followed in calculations, data processing, data mining, pattern recognition, automated reasoning or other problem-solving operations.

  6. Dining philosophers problem - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, the dining philosophers problem is an example problem often used in concurrent algorithm design to illustrate synchronization issues and techniques for resolving them. It was originally formulated in 1965 by Edsger Dijkstra as a student exam exercise, presented in terms of computers competing for access to tape drive ...

  7. 12 unexpected ways algorithms control your life

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    Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. Blame the algorithm. Algorithms are behind many mundane, but still ...

  8. Heuristic (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    Another example of heuristic making an algorithm faster occurs in certain search problems. Initially, the heuristic tries every possibility at each step, like the full-space search algorithm. But it can stop the search at any time if the current possibility is already worse than the best solution already found.

  9. Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm is an algorithm for finding the majority of a sequence of elements using linear time and a constant number of words of memory. It is named after Robert S. Boyer and J Strother Moore , who published it in 1981, [ 1 ] and is a prototypical example of a streaming algorithm .