Does Random Hopping Ensure More Pandal Visits Than Planned Pandal Hopping?
Document Type
Conference Article
Publication Title
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Abstract
India is a country with rich cultural diversities where festivals keep occurring. In this paper, we introduce the pandal hopping problem where travellers intend to acquire maximum rewards, which may be considered as the satisfaction attained by visiting a pandal. Visiting one pandal from another incurs some cost, but reward is awarded only when a new pandal is visited. The goal is to acquire maximum reward within the associated cost. In this paper, we compare different variations of random walk algorithms such as self-avoiding, exponential, log-normal, quadratic distribution and greedy algorithm. We finally establish that a self-avoiding random walk is best suited to solve such problems.
First Page
31
Last Page
40
DOI
10.1007/978-981-19-0105-8_4
Publication Date
1-1-2023
Recommended Citation
Pal, Debojyoti; Kabiraj, Anwesh; Majumdar, Ritajit; Chatterjee, Kingshuk; and Ganguly, Debayan, "Does Random Hopping Ensure More Pandal Visits Than Planned Pandal Hopping?" (2023). Conference Articles. 641.
https://digitalcommons.isical.ac.in/conf-articles/641