Path-matching problems |
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Authors: | Sun Wu and Udi Manber |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, 85721 Tucson, AZ, USA |
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Abstract: | The notion of matching in graphs is generalized in this paper to a set of paths rather than to a set of edges. The generalized problem, which we call thepath-matching problem, is to pair the vertices of an undirected weighted graph such that the paths connecting each pair are subject to certain objectives and/or constraints. This paper concentrates on the case where the paths are required to be edge-disjoint and the objective is to minimize the maximal cost of a path in the matching (i.e., the bottleneck version). Other variations of the problem are also mentioned. Two algorithms are presented to find the best matching under the constraints listed above for trees. Their worst-case running times areO(n logd logw), whered is the maximal degree of a vertex,w is the maximal cost of an edge, andn is the size of the tree, andO(n2), respectively. The problem is shown to be NP-complete for general graphs. Applications of these problems are also discussed.Udi Manber was supported in part by an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (Grant DCR-8451397), with matching funds from AT&T. |
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Keywords: | Algorithm Bottleneck Graphs Matching Paths Trees |
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