Table of Contents
- 1 What are the disadvantages of breadth first search?
- 2 For what sorts of problems would you use depth first search rather than breadth first search Why?
- 3 What are the shortcomings and limitations of DFS?
- 4 Where is breadth first search used?
- 5 How the depth first search algorithm uses less memory for computation than breadth first search algorithm?
- 6 Why is BFS used?
What are the disadvantages of breadth first search?
One disadvantage of BFS is that it is a ‘blind’ search, when the search space is large the search performance will be poor compared to other heuristic searches. BFS will perform well if the search space is small. It performs best if the goal state lies in upper left-hand side of the tree.
What are the issues in using depth first search?
Here are some important DFS problems asked in Technical Interviews:
- Find number of islands.
- Transitive closure of a graph using DFS.
- Application of DFS.
- Detect cycle in an undirected graph.
- Longest path between any pair of vertices.
- Find a mother vertex in a graph.
- Iterative Depth first traversal.
For what sorts of problems would you use depth first search rather than breadth first search Why?
Depth First Search is commonly used when you need to search the entire tree. It’s easier to implement (using recursion) than BFS, and requires less state: While BFS requires you store the entire ‘frontier’, DFS only requires you store the list of parent nodes of the current element.
What are some real life examples of breadth and depth first search?
5) GPS Navigation systems: Breadth First Search is used to find all neighboring locations. 6) Broadcasting in Network: In networks, a broadcasted packet follows Breadth First Search to reach all nodes. 7) In Garbage Collection: Breadth First Search is used in copying garbage collection using Cheney’s algorithm.
What are the shortcomings and limitations of DFS?
Advantages Of DFS: 1. The memory requirement is Linear WRT Nodes….The disadvantage of DFS:
- Not Guaranteed that it will give you a solution.
- Cut-off depth is smaller so time complexity is more.
- Determination of depth until the search has proceeded.
Which of the following is not true about a breadth first search?
Which of the following is not an application of Breadth First Search? Explanation: Breadth First Search can be applied to Bipartite a graph, to find the shortest path between two nodes, in GPS Navigation. In Path finding, Depth First Search is used. 7.
Where is breadth first search used?
Breadth-first search can be used to solve many problems in graph theory, for example: Copying garbage collection, Cheney’s algorithm. Finding the shortest path between two nodes u and v, with path length measured by number of edges (an advantage over depth-first search)
Which of the following are applications of breadth first search?
Applications Of Breadth-First Search Algorithm
- Crawlers in Search Engines: Breadth-First Search is one of the main algorithms used for indexing web pages.
- GPS Navigation systems:
- Find the Shortest Path & Minimum Spanning Tree for an unweighted graph:
- Broadcasting:
- Peer to Peer Networking:
How the depth first search algorithm uses less memory for computation than breadth first search algorithm?
DFS requires very less memory as it only needs to store a stack of the nodes on the path from root node to the current node. It takes less time to reach to the goal node than BFS algorithm (if it traverses in the right path).
Why may we have a search graph rather than tree?
The advantage of graph search obviously is that, if we finish the search of a node, we will never search it again. On the other hand, the tree search can visit the same node multiple times. The disadvantage of graph search is that it uses more memory (which we may or may not have) than tree search.
Why is BFS used?
Breadth-first search (BFS) is an important graph search algorithm that is used to solve many problems including finding the shortest path in a graph and solving puzzle games (such as Rubik’s Cubes). For example, analyzing networks, mapping routes, and scheduling are graph problems.