When a program attempts to search a data structure for a particular item, it uses an algorithm. An algorithm is a process, defined in code, for carrying out a specific task. Searching a data ...

More broadly, the algorithm offers a nice lesson in the power of cross-pollination between technology and academia -- a link that Google, of course, has embodied from the start.

The team proposed Graph-Decomposed k -NN Searching Algorithm to improve the time-efficiency of nearest nodes searching. In the research, A graph-decomposed tree is constructed from road network.