Which of the following algorithms can be used to find all the connecte...
Breadth First Search (BFS) can be used to find all the connected components in an undirected graph.
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Which of the following algorithms can be used to find all the connecte...
Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm can be used to find all the connected components in an undirected graph.
Explanation:
- BFS is a graph traversal algorithm that explores all the vertices of a graph in breadth-first order.
- It starts at a given source vertex and explores all of its neighbors before moving on to the next level of neighbors.
- By using BFS, we can visit all the vertices that are reachable from a given source vertex.
- In an undirected graph, a connected component is a subgraph in which every pair of vertices is connected by a path, and there is no path between any vertex in the subgraph and any vertex outside the subgraph.
- By running BFS on each vertex of the graph, we can find all the connected components.
Steps to find connected components using BFS:
1. Initialize an empty list to store the connected components.
2. Initialize a boolean array to keep track of visited vertices.
3. For each vertex in the graph, if it is not visited, perform the following steps:
- Create a new empty list to store the current connected component.
- Enqueue the current vertex into a queue.
- Mark the current vertex as visited.
- While the queue is not empty, do the following:
- Dequeue a vertex from the queue.
- Add the dequeued vertex to the current connected component list.
- For each neighbor of the dequeued vertex, if it is not visited, enqueue it into the queue and mark it as visited.
- Add the current connected component list to the list of connected components.
4. Return the list of connected components.
Example:
Consider the following undirected graph:
A---B E
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C---D
- The connected components in this graph are {A, B, C, D} and {E}.
- Starting with vertex A, BFS will visit all the vertices in the first connected component.
- Then, starting with vertex E, BFS will visit the second connected component.
- The final result will be [{A, B, C, D}, {E}].
Conclusion:
By using Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm, we can find all the connected components in an undirected graph. It explores all the vertices in breadth-first order, allowing us to identify which vertices are reachable from a given source vertex and form the connected components.