greedy property

English

Noun

greedy property

  1. (computer science) The property of being globally solvable optimally by making optimal decisions locally.
    • 2013, Steven Halim, Felix Halim, Competitive Programming 3: The New Lower Bound of Programming Contests., page 89:
      It has the greedy property (difficult to prove in time-critical contest environment!). If we make a choice that seems like the best at the moment and proceed to solve the remaining subproblem, we reach the optimal solution. We will never have to reconsider our previous choices.
    • 2012, Betsy George, Sangho Kim, Spatio-temporal Networks: Modeling and Algorithms (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science), Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 25:
      Developing efficient algorithms for computing shortest paths in a time varying spatial network is challenging because these journeys do not always display greedy property or optimal substructure, making techniques like dynamic programming inapplicable.
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