Original optimal method to solve the all-pairs shortest path problem: Dhouib-matrix-ALL-SPP

• Published in: Data science and management Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 206 - 217
• Main Author: Dhouib, Souhail
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.09.2024; KeAi Communications Co. Ltd
• Subjects: All-pairs shortest paths problem; Artificial intelligence; Combinatorial optimization; Dhouib-matrix; Graph theory; Intelligent networks; Network model; Operations research; Intelligent networks; Operations research; Network model; Dhouib-matrix; Graph theory; Combinatorial optimization; Artificial intelligence; All-pairs shortest paths problem
• ISSN: 2666-7649; 2666-7649
• DOI: 10.1016/j.dsm.2024.01.005

The All-pairs shortest path problem (ALL-SPP) aims to find the shortest path joining all the vertices in a given graph. This study proposed a new optimal method, Dhouib-matrix-ALL-SPP (DM-ALL-SPP) to solve the ALL-SPP based on column-row navigation through the adjacency matrix. DM-ALL-SPP is designed to generate in a single execution the shortest path with details among all-pairs of vertices for a graph with positive and negative weighted edges. Even for graphs with a negative cycle, DM-ALL-SPP reported a negative cycle. In addition, DM-ALL-SPP continues to work for directed, undirected and mixed graphs. Furthermore, it is characterized by two phases: the first phase consists of adding by column repeated (n) iterations (where n is the number of vertices), and the second phase resides in adding by row executed in the worst case (n∗log(n)) iterations. The first phase, focused on improving the elements of each column by adding their values to each row and modifying them with the smallest value. The second phase is emphasized by rows only for the elements modified in the first phase. Different instances from the literature were used to test the performance of the proposed DM-ALL-SPP method, which was developed using the Python programming language and the results were compared to those obtained by the Floyd-Warshall algorithm. [Display omitted] •A new optimal method (DM-ALL-SPP) is designed to find the shortest path between all vertices.•A stepwise application of DM-ALL-SPP is presented in details.•DM-ALL-SPP is applicable to different types of graphs.•DM-ALL-SPP can report any negative cycle.•DM-ALL-SPP is compared to the Floyd-Warshall algorithm.