Generating connected acyclic digraphs uniformly at random

  • Authors:
  • Guy Melançon;Fabrice Philippe

  • Affiliations:
  • LIRMM CNRS UMR 5506 Montpellier, France;LIRMM CNRS UMR 5506 Montpellier, France

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We describe a simple algorithm based on a Markov chain process to generate simply connected acyclic directed graphs over a fixed set of vertices. This algorithm is an extension of a previous one, designed to generate acyclic digraphs, non-necessarily connected.