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6 * Egervary Jeno Kombinatorikus Optimalizalasi Kutatocsoport
7 * (Egervary Research Group on Combinatorial Optimization, EGRES).
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22 @defgroup datas Data Structures
23 This group contains the several data structures implemented in LEMON.
27 @defgroup graphs Graph Structures
29 \brief Graph structures implemented in LEMON.
31 The implementation of combinatorial algorithms heavily relies on
32 efficient graph implementations. LEMON offers data structures which are
33 planned to be easily used in an experimental phase of implementation studies,
34 and thereafter the program code can be made efficient by small modifications.
36 The most efficient implementation of diverse applications require the
37 usage of different physical graph implementations. These differences
38 appear in the size of graph we require to handle, memory or time usage
39 limitations or in the set of operations through which the graph can be
40 accessed. LEMON provides several physical graph structures to meet
41 the diverging requirements of the possible users. In order to save on
42 running time or on memory usage, some structures may fail to provide
43 some graph features like arc/edge or node deletion.
45 Alteration of standard containers need a very limited number of
46 operations, these together satisfy the everyday requirements.
47 In the case of graph structures, different operations are needed which do
48 not alter the physical graph, but gives another view. If some nodes or
49 arcs have to be hidden or the reverse oriented graph have to be used, then
50 this is the case. It also may happen that in a flow implementation
51 the residual graph can be accessed by another algorithm, or a node-set
52 is to be shrunk for another algorithm.
53 LEMON also provides a variety of graphs for these requirements called
54 \ref graph_adaptors "graph adaptors". Adaptors cannot be used alone but only
55 in conjunction with other graph representations.
57 You are free to use the graph structure that fit your requirements
58 the best, most graph algorithms and auxiliary data structures can be used
59 with any graph structure.
61 <b>See also:</b> \ref graph_concepts "Graph Structure Concepts".
65 @defgroup graph_adaptors Adaptor Classes for Graphs
67 \brief Adaptor classes for digraphs and graphs
69 This group contains several useful adaptor classes for digraphs and graphs.
71 The main parts of LEMON are the different graph structures, generic
72 graph algorithms, graph concepts, which couple them, and graph
73 adaptors. While the previous notions are more or less clear, the
74 latter one needs further explanation. Graph adaptors are graph classes
75 which serve for considering graph structures in different ways.
77 A short example makes this much clearer. Suppose that we have an
78 instance \c g of a directed graph type, say ListDigraph and an algorithm
80 template <typename Digraph>
81 int algorithm(const Digraph&);
83 is needed to run on the reverse oriented graph. It may be expensive
84 (in time or in memory usage) to copy \c g with the reversed
85 arcs. In this case, an adaptor class is used, which (according
86 to LEMON \ref concepts::Digraph "digraph concepts") works as a digraph.
87 The adaptor uses the original digraph structure and digraph operations when
88 methods of the reversed oriented graph are called. This means that the adaptor
89 have minor memory usage, and do not perform sophisticated algorithmic
90 actions. The purpose of it is to give a tool for the cases when a
91 graph have to be used in a specific alteration. If this alteration is
92 obtained by a usual construction like filtering the node or the arc set or
93 considering a new orientation, then an adaptor is worthwhile to use.
94 To come back to the reverse oriented graph, in this situation
96 template<typename Digraph> class ReverseDigraph;
98 template class can be used. The code looks as follows
101 ReverseDigraph<ListDigraph> rg(g);
102 int result = algorithm(rg);
104 During running the algorithm, the original digraph \c g is untouched.
105 This techniques give rise to an elegant code, and based on stable
106 graph adaptors, complex algorithms can be implemented easily.
108 In flow, circulation and matching problems, the residual
109 graph is of particular importance. Combining an adaptor implementing
110 this with shortest path algorithms or minimum mean cycle algorithms,
111 a range of weighted and cardinality optimization algorithms can be
112 obtained. For other examples, the interested user is referred to the
113 detailed documentation of particular adaptors.
115 The behavior of graph adaptors can be very different. Some of them keep
116 capabilities of the original graph while in other cases this would be
117 meaningless. This means that the concepts that they meet depend
118 on the graph adaptor, and the wrapped graph.
119 For example, if an arc of a reversed digraph is deleted, this is carried
120 out by deleting the corresponding arc of the original digraph, thus the
121 adaptor modifies the original digraph.
122 However in case of a residual digraph, this operation has no sense.
124 Let us stand one more example here to simplify your work.
125 ReverseDigraph has constructor
127 ReverseDigraph(Digraph& digraph);
129 This means that in a situation, when a <tt>const %ListDigraph&</tt>
130 reference to a graph is given, then it have to be instantiated with
131 <tt>Digraph=const %ListDigraph</tt>.
133 int algorithm1(const ListDigraph& g) {
134 ReverseDigraph<const ListDigraph> rg(g);
135 return algorithm2(rg);
143 \brief Map structures implemented in LEMON.
145 This group contains the map structures implemented in LEMON.
147 LEMON provides several special purpose maps and map adaptors that e.g. combine
148 new maps from existing ones.
150 <b>See also:</b> \ref map_concepts "Map Concepts".
154 @defgroup graph_maps Graph Maps
156 \brief Special graph-related maps.
158 This group contains maps that are specifically designed to assign
159 values to the nodes and arcs/edges of graphs.
161 If you are looking for the standard graph maps (\c NodeMap, \c ArcMap,
162 \c EdgeMap), see the \ref graph_concepts "Graph Structure Concepts".
166 \defgroup map_adaptors Map Adaptors
168 \brief Tools to create new maps from existing ones
170 This group contains map adaptors that are used to create "implicit"
171 maps from other maps.
173 Most of them are \ref concepts::ReadMap "read-only maps".
174 They can make arithmetic and logical operations between one or two maps
175 (negation, shifting, addition, multiplication, logical 'and', 'or',
176 'not' etc.) or e.g. convert a map to another one of different Value type.
178 The typical usage of this classes is passing implicit maps to
179 algorithms. If a function type algorithm is called then the function
180 type map adaptors can be used comfortable. For example let's see the
181 usage of map adaptors with the \c graphToEps() function.
183 Color nodeColor(int deg) {
185 return Color(0.5, 0.0, 0.5);
186 } else if (deg == 1) {
187 return Color(1.0, 0.5, 1.0);
189 return Color(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
193 Digraph::NodeMap<int> degree_map(graph);
195 graphToEps(graph, "graph.eps")
196 .coords(coords).scaleToA4().undirected()
197 .nodeColors(composeMap(functorToMap(nodeColor), degree_map))
200 The \c functorToMap() function makes an \c int to \c Color map from the
201 \c nodeColor() function. The \c composeMap() compose the \c degree_map
202 and the previously created map. The composed map is a proper function to
203 get the color of each node.
205 The usage with class type algorithms is little bit harder. In this
206 case the function type map adaptors can not be used, because the
207 function map adaptors give back temporary objects.
211 typedef Digraph::ArcMap<double> DoubleArcMap;
212 DoubleArcMap length(graph);
213 DoubleArcMap speed(graph);
215 typedef DivMap<DoubleArcMap, DoubleArcMap> TimeMap;
216 TimeMap time(length, speed);
218 Dijkstra<Digraph, TimeMap> dijkstra(graph, time);
219 dijkstra.run(source, target);
221 We have a length map and a maximum speed map on the arcs of a digraph.
222 The minimum time to pass the arc can be calculated as the division of
223 the two maps which can be done implicitly with the \c DivMap template
224 class. We use the implicit minimum time map as the length map of the
225 \c Dijkstra algorithm.
229 @defgroup matrices Matrices
231 \brief Two dimensional data storages implemented in LEMON.
233 This group contains two dimensional data storages implemented in LEMON.
237 @defgroup paths Path Structures
239 \brief %Path structures implemented in LEMON.
241 This group contains the path structures implemented in LEMON.
243 LEMON provides flexible data structures to work with paths.
244 All of them have similar interfaces and they can be copied easily with
245 assignment operators and copy constructors. This makes it easy and
246 efficient to have e.g. the Dijkstra algorithm to store its result in
247 any kind of path structure.
249 \sa lemon::concepts::Path
253 @defgroup auxdat Auxiliary Data Structures
255 \brief Auxiliary data structures implemented in LEMON.
257 This group contains some data structures implemented in LEMON in
258 order to make it easier to implement combinatorial algorithms.
262 @defgroup algs Algorithms
263 \brief This group contains the several algorithms
264 implemented in LEMON.
266 This group contains the several algorithms
267 implemented in LEMON.
271 @defgroup search Graph Search
273 \brief Common graph search algorithms.
275 This group contains the common graph search algorithms, namely
276 \e breadth-first \e search (BFS) and \e depth-first \e search (DFS).
280 @defgroup shortest_path Shortest Path Algorithms
282 \brief Algorithms for finding shortest paths.
284 This group contains the algorithms for finding shortest paths in digraphs.
286 - \ref Dijkstra algorithm for finding shortest paths from a source node
287 when all arc lengths are non-negative.
288 - \ref BellmanFord "Bellman-Ford" algorithm for finding shortest paths
289 from a source node when arc lenghts can be either positive or negative,
290 but the digraph should not contain directed cycles with negative total
292 - \ref FloydWarshall "Floyd-Warshall" and \ref Johnson "Johnson" algorithms
293 for solving the \e all-pairs \e shortest \e paths \e problem when arc
294 lenghts can be either positive or negative, but the digraph should
295 not contain directed cycles with negative total length.
296 - \ref Suurballe A successive shortest path algorithm for finding
297 arc-disjoint paths between two nodes having minimum total length.
301 @defgroup max_flow Maximum Flow Algorithms
303 \brief Algorithms for finding maximum flows.
305 This group contains the algorithms for finding maximum flows and
306 feasible circulations.
308 The \e maximum \e flow \e problem is to find a flow of maximum value between
309 a single source and a single target. Formally, there is a \f$G=(V,A)\f$
310 digraph, a \f$cap: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}^+_0\f$ capacity function and
311 \f$s, t \in V\f$ source and target nodes.
312 A maximum flow is an \f$f: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}^+_0\f$ solution of the
313 following optimization problem.
315 \f[ \max\sum_{sv\in A} f(sv) - \sum_{vs\in A} f(vs) \f]
316 \f[ \sum_{uv\in A} f(uv) = \sum_{vu\in A} f(vu)
317 \quad \forall u\in V\setminus\{s,t\} \f]
318 \f[ 0 \leq f(uv) \leq cap(uv) \quad \forall uv\in A \f]
320 LEMON contains several algorithms for solving maximum flow problems:
321 - \ref EdmondsKarp Edmonds-Karp algorithm.
322 - \ref Preflow Goldberg-Tarjan's preflow push-relabel algorithm.
323 - \ref DinitzSleatorTarjan Dinitz's blocking flow algorithm with dynamic trees.
324 - \ref GoldbergTarjan Preflow push-relabel algorithm with dynamic trees.
326 In most cases the \ref Preflow "Preflow" algorithm provides the
327 fastest method for computing a maximum flow. All implementations
328 also provide functions to query the minimum cut, which is the dual
329 problem of maximum flow.
331 \ref Circulation is a preflow push-relabel algorithm implemented directly
332 for finding feasible circulations, which is a somewhat different problem,
333 but it is strongly related to maximum flow.
334 For more information, see \ref Circulation.
338 @defgroup min_cost_flow_algs Minimum Cost Flow Algorithms
341 \brief Algorithms for finding minimum cost flows and circulations.
343 This group contains the algorithms for finding minimum cost flows and
344 circulations. For more information about this problem and its dual
345 solution see \ref min_cost_flow "Minimum Cost Flow Problem".
347 LEMON contains several algorithms for this problem.
348 - \ref NetworkSimplex Primal Network Simplex algorithm with various
350 - \ref CostScaling Push-Relabel and Augment-Relabel algorithms based on
352 - \ref CapacityScaling Successive Shortest %Path algorithm with optional
354 - \ref CancelAndTighten The Cancel and Tighten algorithm.
355 - \ref CycleCanceling Cycle-Canceling algorithms.
357 In general NetworkSimplex is the most efficient implementation,
358 but in special cases other algorithms could be faster.
359 For example, if the total supply and/or capacities are rather small,
360 CapacityScaling is usually the fastest algorithm (without effective scaling).
364 @defgroup min_cut Minimum Cut Algorithms
367 \brief Algorithms for finding minimum cut in graphs.
369 This group contains the algorithms for finding minimum cut in graphs.
371 The \e minimum \e cut \e problem is to find a non-empty and non-complete
372 \f$X\f$ subset of the nodes with minimum overall capacity on
373 outgoing arcs. Formally, there is a \f$G=(V,A)\f$ digraph, a
374 \f$cap: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}^+_0\f$ capacity function. The minimum
375 cut is the \f$X\f$ solution of the next optimization problem:
377 \f[ \min_{X \subset V, X\not\in \{\emptyset, V\}}
378 \sum_{uv\in A, u\in X, v\not\in X}cap(uv) \f]
380 LEMON contains several algorithms related to minimum cut problems:
382 - \ref HaoOrlin "Hao-Orlin algorithm" for calculating minimum cut
384 - \ref NagamochiIbaraki "Nagamochi-Ibaraki algorithm" for
385 calculating minimum cut in undirected graphs.
386 - \ref GomoryHu "Gomory-Hu tree computation" for calculating
387 all-pairs minimum cut in undirected graphs.
389 If you want to find minimum cut just between two distinict nodes,
390 see the \ref max_flow "maximum flow problem".
394 @defgroup min_mean_cycle Minimum Mean Cycle Algorithms
396 \brief Algorithms for finding minimum mean cycles.
398 This group contains the algorithms for finding minimum mean cycles.
400 The \e minimum \e mean \e cycle \e problem is to find a directed cycle
401 of minimum mean length (cost) in a digraph.
402 The mean length of a cycle is the average length of its arcs, i.e. the
403 ratio between the total length of the cycle and the number of arcs on it.
405 This problem has an important connection to \e conservative \e length
406 \e functions, too. A length function on the arcs of a digraph is called
407 conservative if and only if there is no directed cycle of negative total
408 length. For an arbitrary length function, the negative of the minimum
409 cycle mean is the smallest \f$\epsilon\f$ value so that increasing the
410 arc lengths uniformly by \f$\epsilon\f$ results in a conservative length
413 LEMON contains three algorithms for solving the minimum mean cycle problem:
414 - \ref Karp "Karp"'s original algorithm.
415 - \ref HartmannOrlin "Hartmann-Orlin"'s algorithm, which is an improved
416 version of Karp's algorithm.
417 - \ref Howard "Howard"'s policy iteration algorithm.
419 In practice, the Howard algorithm proved to be by far the most efficient
420 one, though the best known theoretical bound on its running time is
422 Both Karp and HartmannOrlin algorithms run in time O(ne) and use space
423 O(n<sup>2</sup>+e), but the latter one is typically faster due to the
424 applied early termination scheme.
428 @defgroup graph_properties Connectivity and Other Graph Properties
430 \brief Algorithms for discovering the graph properties
432 This group contains the algorithms for discovering the graph properties
433 like connectivity, bipartiteness, euler property, simplicity etc.
435 \image html edge_biconnected_components.png
436 \image latex edge_biconnected_components.eps "bi-edge-connected components" width=\textwidth
440 @defgroup planar Planarity Embedding and Drawing
442 \brief Algorithms for planarity checking, embedding and drawing
444 This group contains the algorithms for planarity checking,
445 embedding and drawing.
447 \image html planar.png
448 \image latex planar.eps "Plane graph" width=\textwidth
452 @defgroup matching Matching Algorithms
454 \brief Algorithms for finding matchings in graphs and bipartite graphs.
456 This group contains the algorithms for calculating
457 matchings in graphs and bipartite graphs. The general matching problem is
458 finding a subset of the edges for which each node has at most one incident
461 There are several different algorithms for calculate matchings in
462 graphs. The matching problems in bipartite graphs are generally
463 easier than in general graphs. The goal of the matching optimization
464 can be finding maximum cardinality, maximum weight or minimum cost
465 matching. The search can be constrained to find perfect or
466 maximum cardinality matching.
468 The matching algorithms implemented in LEMON:
469 - \ref MaxBipartiteMatching Hopcroft-Karp augmenting path algorithm
470 for calculating maximum cardinality matching in bipartite graphs.
471 - \ref PrBipartiteMatching Push-relabel algorithm
472 for calculating maximum cardinality matching in bipartite graphs.
473 - \ref MaxWeightedBipartiteMatching
474 Successive shortest path algorithm for calculating maximum weighted
475 matching and maximum weighted bipartite matching in bipartite graphs.
476 - \ref MinCostMaxBipartiteMatching
477 Successive shortest path algorithm for calculating minimum cost maximum
478 matching in bipartite graphs.
479 - \ref MaxMatching Edmond's blossom shrinking algorithm for calculating
480 maximum cardinality matching in general graphs.
481 - \ref MaxWeightedMatching Edmond's blossom shrinking algorithm for calculating
482 maximum weighted matching in general graphs.
483 - \ref MaxWeightedPerfectMatching
484 Edmond's blossom shrinking algorithm for calculating maximum weighted
485 perfect matching in general graphs.
487 \image html bipartite_matching.png
488 \image latex bipartite_matching.eps "Bipartite Matching" width=\textwidth
492 @defgroup spantree Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms
494 \brief Algorithms for finding minimum cost spanning trees and arborescences.
496 This group contains the algorithms for finding minimum cost spanning
497 trees and arborescences.
501 @defgroup auxalg Auxiliary Algorithms
503 \brief Auxiliary algorithms implemented in LEMON.
505 This group contains some algorithms implemented in LEMON
506 in order to make it easier to implement complex algorithms.
510 @defgroup approx Approximation Algorithms
512 \brief Approximation algorithms.
514 This group contains the approximation and heuristic algorithms
515 implemented in LEMON.
519 @defgroup gen_opt_group General Optimization Tools
520 \brief This group contains some general optimization frameworks
521 implemented in LEMON.
523 This group contains some general optimization frameworks
524 implemented in LEMON.
528 @defgroup lp_group Lp and Mip Solvers
529 @ingroup gen_opt_group
530 \brief Lp and Mip solver interfaces for LEMON.
532 This group contains Lp and Mip solver interfaces for LEMON. The
533 various LP solvers could be used in the same manner with this
538 @defgroup lp_utils Tools for Lp and Mip Solvers
540 \brief Helper tools to the Lp and Mip solvers.
542 This group adds some helper tools to general optimization framework
543 implemented in LEMON.
547 @defgroup metah Metaheuristics
548 @ingroup gen_opt_group
549 \brief Metaheuristics for LEMON library.
551 This group contains some metaheuristic optimization tools.
555 @defgroup utils Tools and Utilities
556 \brief Tools and utilities for programming in LEMON
558 Tools and utilities for programming in LEMON.
562 @defgroup gutils Basic Graph Utilities
564 \brief Simple basic graph utilities.
566 This group contains some simple basic graph utilities.
570 @defgroup misc Miscellaneous Tools
572 \brief Tools for development, debugging and testing.
574 This group contains several useful tools for development,
575 debugging and testing.
579 @defgroup timecount Time Measuring and Counting
581 \brief Simple tools for measuring the performance of algorithms.
583 This group contains simple tools for measuring the performance
588 @defgroup exceptions Exceptions
590 \brief Exceptions defined in LEMON.
592 This group contains the exceptions defined in LEMON.
596 @defgroup io_group Input-Output
597 \brief Graph Input-Output methods
599 This group contains the tools for importing and exporting graphs
600 and graph related data. Now it supports the \ref lgf-format
601 "LEMON Graph Format", the \c DIMACS format and the encapsulated
602 postscript (EPS) format.
606 @defgroup lemon_io LEMON Graph Format
608 \brief Reading and writing LEMON Graph Format.
610 This group contains methods for reading and writing
611 \ref lgf-format "LEMON Graph Format".
615 @defgroup eps_io Postscript Exporting
617 \brief General \c EPS drawer and graph exporter
619 This group contains general \c EPS drawing methods and special
620 graph exporting tools.
624 @defgroup dimacs_group DIMACS format
626 \brief Read and write files in DIMACS format
628 Tools to read a digraph from or write it to a file in DIMACS format data.
632 @defgroup nauty_group NAUTY Format
634 \brief Read \e Nauty format
636 Tool to read graphs from \e Nauty format data.
640 @defgroup concept Concepts
641 \brief Skeleton classes and concept checking classes
643 This group contains the data/algorithm skeletons and concept checking
644 classes implemented in LEMON.
646 The purpose of the classes in this group is fourfold.
648 - These classes contain the documentations of the %concepts. In order
649 to avoid document multiplications, an implementation of a concept
650 simply refers to the corresponding concept class.
652 - These classes declare every functions, <tt>typedef</tt>s etc. an
653 implementation of the %concepts should provide, however completely
654 without implementations and real data structures behind the
655 interface. On the other hand they should provide nothing else. All
656 the algorithms working on a data structure meeting a certain concept
657 should compile with these classes. (Though it will not run properly,
658 of course.) In this way it is easily to check if an algorithm
659 doesn't use any extra feature of a certain implementation.
661 - The concept descriptor classes also provide a <em>checker class</em>
662 that makes it possible to check whether a certain implementation of a
663 concept indeed provides all the required features.
665 - Finally, They can serve as a skeleton of a new implementation of a concept.
669 @defgroup graph_concepts Graph Structure Concepts
671 \brief Skeleton and concept checking classes for graph structures
673 This group contains the skeletons and concept checking classes of LEMON's
674 graph structures and helper classes used to implement these.
678 @defgroup map_concepts Map Concepts
680 \brief Skeleton and concept checking classes for maps
682 This group contains the skeletons and concept checking classes of maps.
688 @defgroup demos Demo Programs
690 Some demo programs are listed here. Their full source codes can be found in
691 the \c demo subdirectory of the source tree.
693 In order to compile them, use the <tt>make demo</tt> or the
694 <tt>make check</tt> commands.
698 @defgroup tools Standalone Utility Applications
700 Some utility applications are listed here.
702 The standard compilation procedure (<tt>./configure;make</tt>) will compile