Publication Date:
2015-03-28
Description:
Stackelberg pricing of vertex covers in a bipartite graph, with the priceable nodes on one side of the bipartition, reduces to a sequence of maximum flow problems. This was shown by Briest et al. (Algorithmica 62:733–753, 2012 ), leading to an \(O(n^6)\) algorithm. Here \(n\) is the number of nodes of the graph. We show how the use of the preflow algorithm gives an \(O(n^4)\) algorithm.
Print ISSN:
0178-4617
Electronic ISSN:
1432-0541
Topics:
Computer Science
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Mathematics