Title
On the complexity of finding an unknown cut via vertex queries
Abstract
We investigate the problem of finding an unknown cut through querying vertices of a graph G. Our complexity measure is the number of submitted queries. To avoid some worst cases, we make a few assumptions which allow us to obtain an algorithm with the worst case query complexity of O(k) + 2k log n/k in which k is the number of vertices adjacent to cut-edges. We also provide a matching lowerbound and then prove if G is a tree our algorithm can asymptotically achieve the information theoretic lowerbound on the query complexity. Finally, we show it is possible to remove our extra assumptions but achieve an approximate solution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-73545-8_45
COCOON
Keywords
Field
DocType
query complexity,complexity measure,approximate solution,worst case query complexity,worst case,matching lowerbound,information theoretic lowerbound,log n,extra assumption,graph g.,vertex query,unknown cut
Binary logarithm,Graph,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Vertex (geometry),Computer science,Information complexity,Approximate solution
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4598
0302-9743
3-540-73544-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.52
11
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peyman Afshani125623.84
Ehsan Chiniforooshan211816.38
Reza Dorrigiv317614.02
Arash Farzan413611.07
Mehdi Mirzazadeh5131.74
Narges Simjour6362.85
Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh711113.63