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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2006
Evdokia V. Nikolova, Somerville, MA (US);
Matthew E. Brand, Newtonville, MA (US);
Michael Mitzenmacher, Lexington, MA (US);
Evdokia V. Nikolova, Somerville, MA (US);
Matthew E. Brand, Newtonville, MA (US);
Michael Mitzenmacher, Lexington, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method finds an optimal path from a source to a destination. The possible paths from the source to the destination are represented as a stochastic graph of nodes connected by edges. Each edge has an independent probability distribution over a cost of the edge. A constraint for reaching the destination is defined. The graph is reduced to a relatively small set of deterministic minimum cost problems, which can be solved to determine an optimal path that maximizes a probability of reaching the destination within the constraint.