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A heuristic function is a way of estimating how close a node is to the goal, without knowing the exact distance. It should have some properties to make the A* algorithm work well.

Are you fascinated with cryptography? You're not alone: a lot of engineers are. Occasionally, some of them decide to go as far as to write their own custom cryptographic hash functions and use them in ...

Given a graph with arcs that have costs, the A* algorithm is designed to find the shortest path from a single node to a set of nodes. While the A* algorithm is well understood, it is somewhat limited ...

The scheduling of Virtual Network Functions (VN-Fs) is an important problem for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) resource allocation. In this paper, we investigate how to manage the Network ...