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Main Authors: Kintali, Shiva, Kothari, Nishad, Kumar, Akash
Format: Preprint
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4824
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author Kintali, Shiva
Kothari, Nishad
Kumar, Akash
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Kothari, Nishad
Kumar, Akash
contents Several problems that are NP-hard on general graphs are efficiently solvable on graphs with bounded treewidth. Efforts have been made to generalize treewidth and the related notion of pathwidth to digraphs. Directed treewidth, DAG-width and Kelly-width are some such notions which generalize treewidth, whereas directed pathwidth generalizes pathwidth. Each of these digraph width measures have an associated decomposition structure. In this paper, we present approximation algorithms for all these digraph width parameters. In particular, we give an O(sqrt{logn})-approximation algorithm for directed treewidth, and an O({\log}^{3/2}{n})-approximation algorithm for directed pathwidth, DAG-width and Kelly-width. Our algorithms construct the corresponding decompositions whose widths are within the above mentioned approximation factors.
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spellingShingle Approximation Algorithms for Digraph Width Parameters
Kintali, Shiva
Kothari, Nishad
Kumar, Akash
Data Structures and Algorithms
Several problems that are NP-hard on general graphs are efficiently solvable on graphs with bounded treewidth. Efforts have been made to generalize treewidth and the related notion of pathwidth to digraphs. Directed treewidth, DAG-width and Kelly-width are some such notions which generalize treewidth, whereas directed pathwidth generalizes pathwidth. Each of these digraph width measures have an associated decomposition structure. In this paper, we present approximation algorithms for all these digraph width parameters. In particular, we give an O(sqrt{logn})-approximation algorithm for directed treewidth, and an O({\log}^{3/2}{n})-approximation algorithm for directed pathwidth, DAG-width and Kelly-width. Our algorithms construct the corresponding decompositions whose widths are within the above mentioned approximation factors.
title Approximation Algorithms for Digraph Width Parameters
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4824