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Weighted Graph Algorithms

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The data structures and traversal algorithms of Chapter 7 provide the basic building blocks for any computation on graphs. However, all the algorithms presented there dealt with unweighted graphs—in other words, graphs where each edge has identical value or weight.

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Skiena, S. (2020). Weighted Graph Algorithms. In: The Algorithm Design Manual. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54256-6_8

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