Canadian traveller problem

English

Etymology

Introduced by Christos Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis in 1989. Supposed to allude to the difficulties experienced by Canadian drivers with snowfall randomly blocking roads.

Noun

Canadian traveller problem

1. (computing theory) A generalization of the shortest path problem to graphs that are only partially observable (i.e. the graph is revealed while it is being explored).