Theoretical improvements in algorithmic efficiency for network flow problems

  • Authors:
  • Jack Edmonds;Richard M. Karp

  • Affiliations:
  • National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.;University of California, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorial optimization - Eureka, you shrink!
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents new algorithms for the maximum flow problem, the Hitchcock transportation problem and the general minimum-cost flow problem. Upper bounds on the number of steps in these algorithms are derived, and are shown to improve on the upper bounds of earlier algorithms.