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Mixed-Approach Algorithms for Transitive Closure.

Håkan Jakobsson: Mixed-Approach Algorithms for Transitive Closure. PODS 1991: 199-205
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  author    = {H{\aa}kan Jakobsson},
  title     = {Mixed-Approach Algorithms for Transitive Closure},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on
               Principles of Database Systems, May 29-31, 1991, Denver, Colorado},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  year      = {1991},
  isbn      = {0-89791-430-9},
  pages     = {199-205},
  ee        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/113413.113431, db/conf/pods/Jakobsson91.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/pods/91},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract

We study two different approaches for computing the transitive closure of a directed graph and show that, in some sense, they are "dual" on edge-reversed graphs but, nevertheless, can differ asymptotically in cost on the same family of graphs. We show how the two approaches can be mixed into a new algorithm using reachability trees. We show that the new algorithm is O(Sigma(x,y) in V×VCONN(x, y)) where CONN(x, y) is the pairwise connectivity of x and y, and give a more exact connectivity-based upper bound that is better than the lower bound for a wide class of other algorithms on every family of graphs.

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Referenced by

  1. Ismail H. Toroslu, Ghassan Z. Qadah: The Strong Partial Transitive-Closure Problem: Algorithms and Performance Evaluation. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 8(4): 617-629(1996)
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