Optimizing Network Navigation: A Comparative Analysis of Genetic Algorithm Efficacy Against Traditional Shortest Path Paradigms

it then selects the node with the smallest distance and adds it to the set of visited nodes. The heuristic function estimates the distance between each node and the goal node, allowing the algorithm to explore nodes that are likely to lead to the goal node first.. Once the graph is constructed, you can apply Dijkstra algorithm. Traditional algorithms, such as Dijkstra and Floyd-War shall, have been used to solve this problem efficiently, but their performance can be affected by the complexity and size of the network.