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Definition: A measure of the maximum weight along paths in a weighted, directed graph.
See also flow network, maximum-flow problem.
Author: PEB
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Paul E. Black, "flow", from
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures, Paul E. Black, ed.,
NIST.
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