Solving maximum flow problems on real world bipartite graphs

2009 Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, ALENEX 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 14-28

  Negruşeri, Cosmin Silvestru ^a   Paşoi, Mircea Bogdan ^b   Stanley, Barbara ^a   Stein, Clifford ^c   Strat, Cristian George ^b  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

BIPARTITE GRAPHS; BIPARTITE NETWORK; MAXIMUM FLOW PROBLEMS; MAXIMUM-FLOW ALGORITHM; REAL-WORLD; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; RUNNING TIME;

FLOW GRAPHS;

EID: 84861002813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1137/1.9781611972894.2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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