The document discusses graph search algorithms. It begins by defining the problem of finding all nodes reachable from a single source node s in a graph G. It then outlines the basic steps of a graph search: (1) start with the known reachable nodes as just s; (2) repeatedly find neighbors of known reachable nodes and add them as new reachable nodes; (3) terminate when no more progress can be made.
It then describes breadth-first search (BFS) in detail, showing how BFS finds nodes in order of distance from s by maintaining a queue of found nodes not yet handled. At each step, BFS handles the next node in the queue, finds its neighbors, and adds them to the found