Algorithms for maximum weight induced paths

  • Authors:
  • Fanica Gavril

  • Affiliations:
  • CEMA(T1), P.O. Box 2250, Haifa 31021, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A family of graphs is a k-bounded-hole family if every graph in the family has no holes with more than k vertices. The problem of finding in a graph a maximum weight induced path has applications in large communication and neural networks when worst case communication time needs to be evaluated; unfortunately this problem is NP-hard even when restricted to bipartite graphs. We show that this problem has polynomial time algorithms for k-bounded-hole families of graphs, for interval-filament graphs and for graphs decomposable by clique cut-sets or by splits into prime subgraphs for which such algorithms exist.