On implementing the push-relabel method for the maximum flow problem

Algorithmica (New York)

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 390-410

  Cherkassky, B V ^a   Goldberg, A V ^b,c  

^a CENTRAL ECONOMICS AND MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b Stanford University ^*  (United States)

^c NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimental evaluation; Maximum flows; Network optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000122499     PISSN: 01784617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00009180     Document Type: Article

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