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Digraph Applications (cont)

Problems to solve on digraphs:
  • is there a directed path from s to t? (transitive closure)
  • what is the shortest path from s to t? (shortest path, #edges)
  • are all vertices mutually reachable? (strong connectivity)
  • how to organise a set of tasks? (topological sort)
  • which web pages are "important"? (PageRank)
  • how to build a web crawler? (graph traversal)