Hi Bob,

please see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth-first_search
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra's_algorithm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellman%E2%80%93Ford_algorithm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson's_algorithm

Gabor


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Bob Pap <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
> The function description of shortest.paths() indicates:
>
>  The implemented algorithms are breadth-first search (‘unweighted’), this
> only works for unweighted graphs; the Dijkstra algorithm (‘dijkstra’),
> this works for graphs with non-negative edge weights; the Bellman-Ford
> algorithm (‘bellman-ford’), and Johnson's algorithm (‘"johnson"’). The
> latter two algorithms work with arbitrary edge weights, but (naturally)
> only for graphs that don't have a negative cycle.
>
> Short of having access to the referenced book (West, D.B. (1996). 
> *Introduction
> to Graph Theory.* Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall), would you
> know a reference to what exactly do the algorithms do? Many thanks.
>
> Kindly,
> Bob Pap
>
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