Title
Towards faster local search for minimum weight vertex cover on massive graphs.
Abstract
The minimum weight vertex cover (MWVC) problem is a well known NP-hard problem with various real-world applications. In this paper, we design an efficient algorithm named FastWVC to solve MWVC problem in massive graphs. To this end, we propose a construction procedure, which aims to generate a quality initial vertex cover in short time. We also propose a new exchange step for reconstructing a vertex cover. Additionally, a cost-effective strategy is used for choosing adding vertices, which can accelerate the algorithm. Experiments on 102 instances were conducted to confirm the effectiveness of our algorithm. The results show that the FastWVC algorithm outperforms other algorithms in terms of both solution quality and computational time in most of the instances. We also carry out experiments that analyze the effectiveness of the underlying ideas.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.ins.2018.08.052
Information Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
Minimum weighted vertex cover,Local search,Massive graph
Discrete mathematics,Graph,Vertex (geometry),Minimum weight,Vertex cover,Local search (optimization),Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
471
0020-0255
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
14
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shaowei Cai140236.58
Yuanjie Li224338.95
Wenying Hou351.08
haoran wang4816.77