DAG-width: connectivity measure for directed graphs

  • Authors:
  • Jan Obdržálek

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Edinburgh

  • Venue:
  • SODA '06 Proceedings of the seventeenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithm
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Tree-width is a very useful connectivity measure for undirected graphs. We propose a new definition, called DAG-width, for directed graphs which measures how close a graph is to a directed acyclic graph. In addition we define a cops-and-robber game and show that this game characterises exactly the class of graphs of bounded DAG-width. A comparison of DAG-width with tree-width and directed tree-width follows. Finally we show that NP-complete problems can be solved in polynomial time on graphs of bounded DAG-width.