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Monday, February 14, 2011

Depth First Search


What is Graph?
A graph is just a set of vertices (nodes), together with edges (connections) between some pairs of nodes. If the connections have a direction, the graph is said to be “directed graph”, otherwise the graph is said to be “undirected graph”.

A graph G = (V, E) with V, i.e. set of vertices and E, i.e. set of edges.

Searching a graph: Systematically follow the edges of a graph to visit the vertices of the graph. And is used to discover the structure of a graph.

Standard graph searching algorithms are
  • Depth First Search (DFS)
  • Breadth First Search (BFS)
Problem Statement
Deeply search a graph to make logical tree. 

Depth First Search
Depth first is an algorithm for traversing or searching a tree. It explore edges out of the most recently discovered vertex v. When all edges of v have been explored, backtrack to explore other edges leaving the vertex from which v was discovered (its predecessor). 

 “Search as deep as possible first.”
Depth first search is another way of traversing graphs, which is closely related to preorder traversal of a tree.