Finding long simple paths in a weighted digraph using pseudo-topological orderings

نویسنده

  • Miguel Raggi
چکیده

Given a weighted digraph D, finding the longest simple path is well known to be NPhard. Furthermore, even giving an approximation algorithm is known to be NP-hard. In this paper we describe an efficient heuristic algorithm for finding long simple paths, using an hybrid approach of DFS and pseudo-topological orders, a a generalization of topological orders to non acyclic graphs, via a process we call “opening edges”. An implementation of this algorithm won the Oracle MDC 2015 coding competition.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1609.07450  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016