Heuristics for a matrix symmetrization problem

  • Authors:
  • Bora Uçar

  • Affiliations:
  • CERFACS, Toulouse, Cedex 1, France

  • Venue:
  • PPAM'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Parallel processing and applied mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider the following problem: given a square, nonsymmetric, (0, 1)-matrix, find a permutation of its columns that yields a zero-free diagonal and maximizes the symmetry. The problem is known to be NP-hard. We propose a fast iterative-improvement based heuristic and evaluate the performance of the heuristic on a large set of matrices.