An Algorithm for Partitioning Trees Augmented with Sibling Edges

We inventigate a special case of the graph partitioning problem: the partitioning of a sibling graph which is an ordered tree augmented with edges connecting consecutive nodes that share a common parent. We present XS, a dynamic programming algorithm for partitioning an n-node sibling graph in
O (nW3) time and O (nW + W2) space. We describe the algorithm and present a proof of its correctness.

By: Rajesh Bordawekar; Oded Shmueli

Published in: RC23979 in 2006

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