Algorithmic Graph Theory Longest Path Cactus Graphs
Issue Date:
2012
Publisher:
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Citation:
Serdica Journal of Computing, Vol. 6, No 3, (2012), 287p-298p
Abstract:
We propose an algorithm that computes the length of a longest
path in a cactus graph. Our algorithm can easily be modified to output a
longest path as well or to solve the problem on cacti with edge or vertex
weights. The algorithm works on rooted cacti and assigns to each vertex
a two-number label, the first number being the desired parameter of the
subcactus rooted at that vertex. The algorithm applies the divide-and-conquer approach and computes the label of each vertex from the labels of its children. The time complexity of our algorithm is linear in the number of vertices, thus improving the previously best quadratic time algorithm.
Description:
ACM Computing Classification System (1998): G.2.2.