Implementation and Comparison of Heuristics for the Vertex Cover Problem on Huge Graphs
Laforest, Christian; Campigotto, Romain; Angel, Eric (2012), Implementation and Comparison of Heuristics for the Vertex Cover Problem on Huge Graphs, in Klasing, Ralf, Experimental Algorithms - 11th International Symposium, SEA 2012, Bordeaux, France, June 7-9, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, p. 39-50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30850-5_5
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Communication / ConférenceDate
2012Conference title
SEA 2012Conference date
2012-06Conference city
BordeauxConference country
FranceBook title
Experimental Algorithms - 11th International Symposium, SEA 2012, Bordeaux, France, June 7-9, 2012. ProceedingsBook author
Klasing, RalfPublisher
Springer
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Lecture Notes in Computer ScienceSeries number
7276/2012ISBN
978-3-642-30849-9
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39-50
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We present in this paper an experimental study of six heuristics for a well-studied NP-complete graph problem: the vertex cover. These algorithms are adapted to process huge graphs. Indeed, executed on a current laptop computer, they offer reasonable CPU running times (between twenty seconds and eight hours) on graphs for which sizes are between 200 ·106 and 100 ·109 vertices and edges. We have run algorithms on specific graph families (we propose generators) and also on random power law graphs. Some of these heuristics can produce good solutions. We give here a comparison and an analysis of results obtained on several instances, in terms of quality of solutions and complexity, including running times.Subjects / Keywords
vertex cover; low memory; huge graphs; experimental analysis; implementation of algorithmsRelated items
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