Title
Decomposition Techniques for Subgraph Matching
Abstract
In the constraint programming framework, state-of-the-art static and dynamic decomposition techniques are hard to apply to prob- lems with complete initial constraint graphs. For such problems, we pro- pose a hybrid approach of these techniques in the presence of global constraints. In particular, we solve the subgraph isomorphism problem. Further we design specific heuristics for this hard problem, exploiting its special structure to achieve decomposition. The underlying idea is to pre- compute a static heuristic on a subset of its constraint network, to follow this static ordering until a first problem decomposition is available, and to switch afterwards to a fully propagated, dynamically decomposing search. Experimental results show that, for sparse graphs, our decom- position method solves more instances than dedicated, state-of-the-art matching algorithms or standard constraint programming approaches.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
constraint programming,computational complexity
Field
DocType
Volume
Constraint satisfaction,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Constraint programming,Constraint graph,Decomposition method (constraint satisfaction),Constraint satisfaction dual problem,Constraint logic programming,Subgraph isomorphism problem,Mathematics,Hybrid algorithm (constraint satisfaction)
Journal
abs/0805.1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stéphane Zampelli1443.37
Martin Mann21309.59
Yves Deville3987110.84
Rolf Backofen41213104.30