bellman_ford


bellman_ford, a MATLAB code which implements the Bellman-Ford algorithm for finding the shortest distance from a given node to all other nodes in a directed graph whose edges have been assigned real-valued lengths.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

bellman_ford is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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Reference:

  1. Richard Bellman,
    On a routing problem,
    Quarterly of Applied Mathematics,
    Volume 16, 1958, pages 87-90.
  2. Lester Ford,
    Network Flow Theory,
    RAND Corporation Paper P-923, 1956.

Source Code:


Last revised on 13 November 2014.