An experimental study of algorithms for fully dynamic transitive closure

  • Authors:
  • Ioannis Krommidas;Christos Zaroliagis

  • Affiliations:
  • CTI and University of Patras, Patras, Greece;CTI and University of Patras, Patras, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We have conducted an extensive experimental study on algorithms for fully dynamic transitive closure. We have implemented the recent fully dynamic algorithms by King [1999], Roditty [2003], Roditty and Zwick [2002, 2004], and Demetrescu and Italiano [2000, 2005] along with several variants and compared them to pseudo fully dynamic and simple-minded algorithms developed in a previous study [Frigioni et al. 2001]. We tested and compared these implementations on random inputs, synthetic (worst-case) inputs, and on inputs motivated by real-world graphs. Our experiments reveal that some of the dynamic algorithms can really be of practical value in many situations.