scholarly journals Antibandwidth of a Graph

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Aditya Shastry ◽  
Nidhi Khandelwal

The antibandwidth problem consists of placing the vertices of a graph on a line in consecutive integer points in such a way that the minimum difference of adjacent vertices is maximized. This problem is NP- hard. In this paper, we find some bounds for antibandwidth using some invariants of graphs. We prove that considerating the interior boundary and the exterior boundary when estimating the antibandwidth of connected graphs gives the same results.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina G. Fernandes ◽  
Carla N. Lintzmayer ◽  
Mário César San Felice

We denote by Maximum Leaf Spanning k-Forest the problem of, given a positive integer k and a graph G with at most k components, finding a spanning forest in G with at most k components and the maximum number of leaves. A leaf in a forest is defined as a vertex of degree at most one. The case k = 1 for connected graphs is known to be NP-hard, and is well studied in the literature, with the best approximation algorithm proposed more than 20 years ago by Solis-Oba. The best known approximation algorithm for Maximum Leaf Spanning k-Forest with a slightly different leaf definition is a 3-approximation based on an approach by Lu and Ravi for the k = 1 case. We extend the algorithm of Solis-Oba to achieve a 2-approximation for Maximum Leaf Spanning k-Forest.


2013 ◽  
Vol 760-762 ◽  
pp. 1576-1580
Author(s):  
Guo Yu Zhang ◽  
Hui Zhao ◽  
Min Han ◽  
Li Ling Chen

ris location is one of the key steps of iris recognition system. Non-ideal iris image has some problems, such as eyelid and eyelash occlusion, low contrast of iris and sclera, uneven illumination, and so on. Because of that, its difficult to identify the boundary, especially the exterior boundary. Therefore, this paper proposes a method based on the improved Hough Transform. First, use the minimum method to find the datum point in the pupil, after that identify the valid area of the interior boundary base on that point. Apply the improved Hough Transform to that valid area to identify the interior boundary of the iris image. Then regard the center of the interior circle as our new datum point, use the same method to identify the exterior boundary. Experiment results show that our algorithm has higher accuracy than traditional method on the non-ideal iris image segmentation.


4OR ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-356
Author(s):  
Martijn van Ee ◽  
René Sitters

Abstract We introduce the Chinese deliveryman problem where the goal of the deliveryman is to visit every house in his neighborhood such that the average time of arrival is minimized. We show that, in contrast to the well-known Chinese postman problem, the Chinese deliveryman problem is APX-hard in general and NP-hard for planar graphs. We give a simple $$\sqrt{2}$$ 2 -approximation for undirected graphs and a 4 / 3-approximation for 2-edge connected graphs. We observe that there is a PTAS for planar graphs and that depth first search is optimal for trees.


10.29007/v68w ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Zhu ◽  
Mirek Truszczynski

We study the problem of learning the importance of preferences in preference profiles in two important cases: when individual preferences are aggregated by the ranked Pareto rule, and when they are aggregated by positional scoring rules. For the ranked Pareto rule, we provide a polynomial-time algorithm that finds a ranking of preferences such that the ranked profile correctly decides all the examples, whenever such a ranking exists. We also show that the problem to learn a ranking maximizing the number of correctly decided examples (also under the ranked Pareto rule) is NP-hard. We obtain similar results for the case of weighted profiles when positional scoring rules are used for aggregation.


Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Yu Yao ◽  
Junhui Zhao ◽  
Lenan Wu

This correspondence deals with the joint cognitive design of transmit coded sequences and instrumental variables (IV) receive filter to enhance the performance of a dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) system in the presence of clutter disturbance. The IV receiver can reject clutter more efficiently than the match filter. The signal-to-clutter-and-noise ratio (SCNR) of the IV filter output is viewed as the performance index of the complexity system. We focus on phase only sequences, sharing both a continuous and a discrete phase code and develop optimization algorithms to achieve reasonable pairs of transmit coded sequences and IV receiver that fine approximate the behavior of the optimum SCNR. All iterations involve the solution of NP-hard quadratic fractional problems. The relaxation plus randomization technique is used to find an approximate solution. The complexity, corresponding to the operation of the proposed algorithms, depends on the number of acceptable iterations along with on and the complexity involved in all iterations. Simulation results are offered to evaluate the performance generated by the proposed scheme.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1751 ◽  
pp. 012023
Author(s):  
F C Puri ◽  
Wamiliana ◽  
M Usman ◽  
Amanto ◽  
M Ansori ◽  
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1986 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-342
Author(s):  
Joseph Y.-T. Leung ◽  
Burkhard Monien

We consider the computational complexity of finding an optimal deadlock recovery. It is known that for an arbitrary number of resource types the problem is NP-hard even when the total cost of deadlocked jobs and the total number of resource units are “small” relative to the number of deadlocked jobs. It is also known that for one resource type the problem is NP-hard when the total cost of deadlocked jobs and the total number of resource units are “large” relative to the number of deadlocked jobs. In this paper we show that for one resource type the problem is solvable in polynomial time when the total cost of deadlocked jobs or the total number of resource units is “small” relative to the number of deadlocked jobs. For fixed m ⩾ 2 resource types, we show that the problem is solvable in polynomial time when the total number of resource units is “small” relative to the number of deadlocked jobs. On the other hand, when the total number of resource units is “large”, the problem becomes NP-hard even when the total cost of deadlocked jobs is “small” relative to the number of deadlocked jobs. The results in the paper, together with previous known ones, give a complete delineation of the complexity of this problem under various assumptions of the input parameters.


Algorithms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Aaron Barbosa ◽  
Elijah Pelofske ◽  
Georg Hahn ◽  
Hristo N. Djidjev

Quantum annealers, such as the device built by D-Wave Systems, Inc., offer a way to compute solutions of NP-hard problems that can be expressed in Ising or quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) form. Although such solutions are typically of very high quality, problem instances are usually not solved to optimality due to imperfections of the current generations quantum annealers. In this contribution, we aim to understand some of the factors contributing to the hardness of a problem instance, and to use machine learning models to predict the accuracy of the D-Wave 2000Q annealer for solving specific problems. We focus on the maximum clique problem, a classic NP-hard problem with important applications in network analysis, bioinformatics, and computational chemistry. By training a machine learning classification model on basic problem characteristics such as the number of edges in the graph, or annealing parameters, such as the D-Wave’s chain strength, we are able to rank certain features in the order of their contribution to the solution hardness, and present a simple decision tree which allows to predict whether a problem will be solvable to optimality with the D-Wave 2000Q. We extend these results by training a machine learning regression model that predicts the clique size found by D-Wave.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Sushmita Gupta ◽  
Pranabendu Misra ◽  
Saket Saurabh ◽  
Meirav Zehavi

An input to the P OPULAR M ATCHING problem, in the roommates setting (as opposed to the marriage setting), consists of a graph G (not necessarily bipartite) where each vertex ranks its neighbors in strict order, known as its preference. In the P OPULAR M ATCHING problem the objective is to test whether there exists a matching M * such that there is no matching M where more vertices prefer their matched status in M (in terms of their preferences) over their matched status in M *. In this article, we settle the computational complexity of the P OPULAR M ATCHING problem in the roommates setting by showing that the problem is NP-complete. Thus, we resolve an open question that has been repeatedly and explicitly asked over the last decade.


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