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greedy property

greedy property noun: the property of being globally solvable optimally by making optimal decisions locally.

Noun

greedy property

  1. The property of being globally solvable optimally by making optimal decisions locally.
    • It has the greedy property (difficult to prove in time-critical contest environment!). If we make a choice that seems like the best at the moment and proceed to solve the remaining subproblem, we reach the optimal solution. We will never have to reconsider our previous choices.2013, Steven Halim, Felix Halim, Competitive Programming 3: The New Lower Bound of Programming Contests., page 89
    • Developing efficient algorithms for computing shortest paths in a time varying spatial network is challenging because these journeys do not always display greedy property or optimal substructure, making techniques like dynamic programming inapplicable.2012, Betsy George, Sangho Kim, Spatio-temporal Networks: Modeling and Algorithms (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science), Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 25

Questions about greedy property

What does greedy property mean?
Greedy property means the property of being globally solvable optimally by making optimal decisions locally.
What part of speech is greedy property?
Greedy property is a noun.

Words near greedy property in the dictionary

  1. greedsome
  2. greedster
  3. greedy
  4. greedy algorithm
  5. greedy algorithms
  6. greedy property
  7. greedygut
  8. greedyguts
  9. greeeat
  10. greefe
  11. greegree

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