An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Maximum Matching for Some Classes of Graphs

Author: Parfenoff I.  

Publisher: Academic Press

ISSN: 0743-7315

Source: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol.52, Iss.1, 1998-07, pp. : 96-108

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Abstract

The P4-tidy graphs were introduced by I. Rusu to generalize some already known classes of graphs with few induced P4(cographs,P4-sparse graphs, P4-lite graphs). Here, we propose an extension of R. Lin and S. Olariu's work (1994. J. Parallel Distributed Computing 22, 26–36.) on cographs, using the modular decomposition. As an application, we show how to obtain a maximum matching parallel algorithm for the family of P4-tidy graphs (repre- sented by a parse tree) in O(log n) time with O(n/log n) processors in the EREW-PRAM model with n-vertex graphs. Copyright 1998 Academic Press.