Memory-efficient A*-search using sparse embeddings

  • Authors:
  • Franz Graf;Hans-Peter Kriegel;Matthias Renz;Matthias Schubert

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Informatics, Munich, Germany;Institute for Informatics, Munich, Germany;Institute for Informatics, Munich, Germany;Institute for Informatics, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

When searching for optimal paths in a network, algorithms like A*-search need an approximation of the minimal costs between the current node and a target node. A reference node embedding is a universal method for making such an approximation working for any type of positive edge weights. A drawback of the approach is that the memory consumption of the embedding is linearly increasing with the number of attributes and landmarks. In this paper, we propose methods for significantly decreasing the memory consumption of embedded graphs and examine the impact of the landmark selection.