A new class of heuristic algorithms for weighted perfect matching

  • Authors:
  • M. D. Grigoriadis;B. Kalantari

  • Affiliations:
  • Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ;Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

The minimum-weight perfect matching problem for complete graphs of n vertices with edge weights satisfying the triangle inequality is considered. For each nonnegative integer k ≤ log3n, and for any perfect matching algorithm that runs in t(n) time and has an error bound of ƒ(n) times the optimal weight, an O(max{n2, t(3-kn)})-time heuristic algorithm with an error bound of (7/3)k(1 + ƒ(3 kn)) - 1 is given. By the selection of k as appropriate functions of n, heuristics that have better running times and/or error bounds than existing ones are derived.