Engineering algorithms for approximate weighted matching

  • Authors:
  • Jens Maue;Peter Sanders

  • Affiliations:
  • ETH Zürich, Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Zürich, Switzerland;Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Fakultät für Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • WEA'07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Experimental algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present a systematic study of approximation algorithms for the maximum weight matching problem. This includes a new algorithm which provides the simple greedy method with a recent path heuristic. Surprisingly, this quite simple algorithm performs very well, both in terms of running time and solution quality, and, though some other methods have a better theoretical performance, it ranks among the best algorithms.