// Problem -> Connect all the edges with the minimum cost. // Possible Solution -> Kruskal Algorithm (KA), KA finds the minimum-spanning-tree, which means, the // group of edges with the minimum sum of their weights that connect the whole graph. // The graph needs to be connected, because if there are nodes impossible to reach, there are no // edges that could connect every node in the graph. // KA is a Greedy Algorithm, because edges are analysed based on their weights, that is why a // Priority Queue is used, to take first those less weighted. // This implementations below has some changes compared to conventional ones, but they are explained // all along the code. import java.util.Comparator; import java.util.HashSet; import java.util.PriorityQueue; public class Kruskal { // Complexity: O(E log V) time, where E is the number of edges in the graph and V is the number of // vertices private static class Edge { private int from; private int to; private int weight; public Edge(int from, int to, int weight) { this.from = from; this.to = to; this.weight = weight; } } private static void addEdge(HashSet[] graph, int from, int to, int weight) { graph[from].add(new Edge(from, to, weight)); } public static void main(String[] args) { HashSet[] graph = new HashSet[7]; for (int i = 0; i < graph.length; i++) { graph[i] = new HashSet<>(); } addEdge(graph, 0, 1, 2); addEdge(graph, 0, 2, 3); addEdge(graph, 0, 3, 3); addEdge(graph, 1, 2, 4); addEdge(graph, 2, 3, 5); addEdge(graph, 1, 4, 3); addEdge(graph, 2, 4, 1); addEdge(graph, 3, 5, 7); addEdge(graph, 4, 5, 8); addEdge(graph, 5, 6, 9); System.out.println("Initial Graph: "); for (int i = 0; i < graph.length; i++) { for (Edge edge : graph[i]) { System.out.println(i + " <-- weight " + edge.weight + " --> " + edge.to); } } Kruskal k = new Kruskal(); HashSet[] solGraph = k.kruskal(graph); System.out.println("\nMinimal Graph: "); for (int i = 0; i < solGraph.length; i++) { for (Edge edge : solGraph[i]) { System.out.println(i + " <-- weight " + edge.weight + " --> " + edge.to); } } } public HashSet[] kruskal(HashSet[] graph) { int nodes = graph.length; int[] captain = new int[nodes]; // captain of i, stores the set with all the connected nodes to i HashSet[] connectedGroups = new HashSet[nodes]; HashSet[] minGraph = new HashSet[nodes]; PriorityQueue edges = new PriorityQueue<>((Comparator.comparingInt(edge -> edge.weight))); for (int i = 0; i < nodes; i++) { minGraph[i] = new HashSet<>(); connectedGroups[i] = new HashSet<>(); connectedGroups[i].add(i); captain[i] = i; edges.addAll(graph[i]); } int connectedElements = 0; // as soon as two sets merge all the elements, the algorithm must stop while (connectedElements != nodes && !edges.isEmpty()) { Edge edge = edges.poll(); // This if avoids cycles if (!connectedGroups[captain[edge.from]].contains(edge.to) && !connectedGroups[captain[edge.to]].contains(edge.from)) { // merge sets of the captains of each point connected by the edge connectedGroups[captain[edge.from]].addAll(connectedGroups[captain[edge.to]]); // update captains of the elements merged connectedGroups[captain[edge.from]].forEach(i -> captain[i] = captain[edge.from]); // add Edge to minimal graph addEdge(minGraph, edge.from, edge.to, edge.weight); // count how many elements have been merged connectedElements = connectedGroups[captain[edge.from]].size(); } } return minGraph; } }