Canadian traveller problem
English
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Etymology
[edit]Introduced by Christos Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis in 1989. Supposed to allude to the difficulties experienced by Canadian drivers with snowfall randomly blocking roads.
Noun
[edit]- (computing theory) A generalization of the shortest path problem to graphs that are only partially observable (i.e. the graph is revealed while it is being explored).