An effective refinement algorithm based on swarm intelligence for graph bipartitioning

  • Authors:
  • Lingyu Sun;Ming Leng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Jinggangshan College, Ji'an, PR China;School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, PR China

  • Venue:
  • ESCAPE'07 Proceedings of the First international conference on Combinatorics, Algorithms, Probabilistic and Experimental Methodologies
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Partitioning is a fundamental problem in diverse fields of study such as VLSI design, parallel processing, data mining and task scheduling. The min-cut bipartitioning problem is a fundamental graph partitioning problem and is NP-Complete. In this paper, we present an effective multi-level refinement algorithm based on swarm intelligence for bisecting graph. The success of our algorithm relies on exploiting both the swarm intelligence theory with a boundary refinement policy. Our experimental evaluations on 18 different benchmark graphs show that our algorithm produces high quality solutions compared with those produced by MeTiS that is a state-of-the-art partitioner in the literature