Example 4.1: Shortest Path Problem Whole pineapples are served in a restaurant in London. To ensure freshness, the pineapples are purchased in Hawaii and air freighted from Honolulu to Heathrow in ...

This paper considers a stochastic shortest path problem where the arc lengths are independent random variables following a normal distribution. In this problem, the optimal path is one that maximizes ...

Dimitri P. Bertsekas, John N. Tsitsiklis, An Analysis of Stochastic Shortest Path Problems, Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Aug., 1991), pp. 580-595 ...

Facts about the single source shortest path problem The aim of the single source shortest path problem is to find the shortest paths from a given starting node to all other nodes in a network.