Solving Generalized Maximum Dispersion with Linear Programming

  • Authors:
  • Gerold Jäger;Anand Srivastav;Katja Wolf

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Washington University, Campus Box 1045, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899, USA;Institut für Informatik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4, D-24118 Kiel, Germany;Zentrum für Paralleles Rechnen Universität zu Köln, Weyertal 80, D-50931 Köln, Germany

  • Venue:
  • AAIM '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The Generalized Maximum Dispersionproblem asks for a partition of a given graph into pvertex-disjoint sets, each of them having at most kvertices. The goal is to maximize the total edge-weight of the induced subgraphs. We present the first LP-based approximation algorithm.