Minimum Linear Arrangement of Trees

dc.contributor.advisorMatthias F. M. Stallmann, Committee Chairen_US
dc.contributor.advisorDennis Bahler, Committee Memberen_US
dc.contributor.advisorCarla Savage, Committee Memberen_US
dc.contributor.authorHochberg, Roberten_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-02T18:16:20Z
dc.date.available2010-04-02T18:16:20Z
dc.date.issued2002-09-12en_US
dc.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelthesisen_US
dc.degree.nameMSen_US
dc.description.abstractIn the minimum linear arrangement problem one is given a graph, and wishes to assign distinct integers to the vertices of the graph so that the sum of the differences (in absolute value) across the edges of the graph is minimized. This problem is known to be NP-complete for the class of all graphs, but polynomial for special classes of graphs, one of which is the class of trees. For trees on n vertices, algorithms of time complexity O(n2.2) and O(n1.6) were given by Shiloach in 1979 and Chung in 1983 respectively, with no improvement since then. In this thesis, we present a linear-time algorithm for finding the optimal embedding among those embeddings which have no "crossings," and we describe a C++ implementation of that algorithm as well as Shiloach's algorithm which we make available to the research community.en_US
dc.identifier.otheretd-06112002-143058en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/2659
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dc.subjectGraph Theoryen_US
dc.subjectTreesen_US
dc.subjectCombinatoricsen_US
dc.subjectAlgorithmsen_US
dc.titleMinimum Linear Arrangement of Treesen_US

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