Backtracking is a commonly used recursive technique in which the solution is built incrementally while simultaneously checking for problem conditions at each step. If the conditions are unmet, the ...

The algorithm uses it's own stack (not the system stack) to keep track of the locations along the path it creates. This allows it to backtrack when a dead end is reached, by popping the previous ...

Discrete combinatorial optimization has a central role in many scientific disciplines, however, for hard problems we lack linear time algorithms that would allow us to solve very large instances.

Abstract: The climatic sensitivity of new terrain-aware backtracking algorithms is evaluated across 800 locations in the continental USA on a representative synthetic rolling terrain. We find that a ...