I believe, to achieve the desired efficiency, the problem wants you to avoid re-evaluating parts of the tree you've already visited. Once you've reached and evaluated some sub-tree in the DAG (every node in the tree represents the sub-tree rooted at that node), you can store the resulting value and associate it with that sub-tree. Then, when you visit it again, you can check whether you've pre-computed that value and just retrieve it rather than evaluating it again.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.