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In computer science, a search algorithm, broadly speaking, is an algorithm that takes a problem as input and returns a solution to the problem, usually after evaluating a number of possible solutions. Most of the algorithms studied by computer scientists that solve problems are kinds of search algorithms. The set of all possible solutions to a problem is called the search space. Brute-force search or "naïve"/uninformed search algorithms use the simplest, most intuitive method of searching through the search space, whereas informed search algorithms use heuristics to apply knowledge about the structure of the search space to try to reduce the amount of time spent searching.
Uninformed search
An uninformed search algorithm is one that does not take into account the specific nature of the problem. As such, they can be implemented in general, and then the same implementation can be used in a wide range of problems thanks to abstraction. The drawback is that most search spaces are extremely large, and an uninformed search (especially of a tree) will take a reasonable amount of time only for small examples. As such, to speed up the process, sometimes only an informed search will do.
List search
List search algorithms are perhaps the most basic kind of search algorithm. The goal is to find one element of a set by some key (perhaps containing other information related to the key). As this is a common problem in computer science, the computational complexity of these algorithms has been well studied. The simplest such algorithm is linear search, which simply examines each element of the list in order. It has expensive O(n) running time, where n is the number of items in the list, but can be used directly on any unprocessed list. A more sophisticated list search algorithm is binary search; it runs in O(log n) time. This is significantly better than linear search for large lists of data, but it requires that the list be sorted before searching (see sorting algorithm) and also be random access. Interpolation search is better than binary search for very large sorted lists with fairly even distributions. Grover's algorithm is a quantum algorithm that offers quadratic speedup over the classical linear search for unsorted lists. More on [ Search algorithm ]
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