TY - GEN
T1 - Approximation Algorithms for Maximally Balanced Connected Graph Partition
AU - Chen, Yong
AU - Chen, Zhi Zhong
AU - Lin, Guohui
AU - Xu, Yao
AU - Zhang, An
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Given a simple connected graph, we seek to partition the vertex set V into k non-empty parts such that the subgraph induced by each part is connected, and the partition is maximally balanced in the way that the maximum cardinality of these k parts is minimized. We refer this problem to as min-max balanced connected graph partition into k parts and denote it as k -BGP. The general vertex-weighted version of this problem on trees has been studied since about four decades ago, which admits a linear time exact algorithm; the vertex-weighted 2-BGP and 3-BGP admit a 5/4-approximation and a 3/2-approximation, respectively; but no approximability result exists for k -BGP when, except a trivial k-approximation. In this paper, we present another 3/2-approximation for our cardinality 3-BGP and then extend it to become a k/2-approximation for k -BGP, for any constant. Furthermore, for 4-BGP, we propose an improved 24/13-approximation. To these purposes, we have designed several local improvement operations, which could be useful for related graph partition problems.
AB - Given a simple connected graph, we seek to partition the vertex set V into k non-empty parts such that the subgraph induced by each part is connected, and the partition is maximally balanced in the way that the maximum cardinality of these k parts is minimized. We refer this problem to as min-max balanced connected graph partition into k parts and denote it as k -BGP. The general vertex-weighted version of this problem on trees has been studied since about four decades ago, which admits a linear time exact algorithm; the vertex-weighted 2-BGP and 3-BGP admit a 5/4-approximation and a 3/2-approximation, respectively; but no approximability result exists for k -BGP when, except a trivial k-approximation. In this paper, we present another 3/2-approximation for our cardinality 3-BGP and then extend it to become a k/2-approximation for k -BGP, for any constant. Furthermore, for 4-BGP, we propose an improved 24/13-approximation. To these purposes, we have designed several local improvement operations, which could be useful for related graph partition problems.
KW - Approximation algorithm
KW - Connected component
KW - Graph partition
KW - Induced subgraph
KW - Local improvement
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-36412-0_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-36412-0_11
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85078565205
SN - 9783030364113
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 130
EP - 141
BT - Combinatorial Optimization and Applications - 13th International Conference, COCOA 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Li, Yingshu
A2 - Cardei, Mihaela
A2 - Huang, Yan
PB - Springer
T2 - 13th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2019
Y2 - 13 December 2019 through 15 December 2019
ER -