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     1 namespace lemon {
     2 /**
     3 
     4 \ingroup demos
     5 \file graph_orientation.cc
     6 \brief Graph orientation with lower bound requirement on the
     7 in-degree of the nodes.
     8 
     9 This demo shows an adaptation of the well-known "preflow push" algorithm to
    10 a simple graph orientation problem.
    11 
    12 The input of the problem is a(n undirected) graph and an integer value
    13 <i>f(n)</i> assigned to each node \e n. The task is to find an orientation
    14 of the edges for which the number of edge arriving to each node \e n is at
    15 least least <i>f(n)</i>.
    16 
    17 In fact, the algorithm reads a directed graph and computes a set of edges to
    18 be reversed in order to achieve the in-degree requirement.
    19 This input is given using 
    20 \ref graph-io-page ".lgf (Lemon Graph Format)" file. It should contain
    21 three node maps. The one called "f" contains the in-degree requirements, while
    22 "coordinate_x" and "coordinate_y" indicate the position of the nodes. These
    23 latter ones are used to generate the output, which is a <tt>.eps</tt> file.
    24 
    25 
    26 \section go-alg-dec The C++ source file
    27 
    28 Here you find how to solve the problem above using lemon.
    29 
    30 \subsection go-alg-head Headers and convenience typedefs
    31 
    32 First we include some important headers.
    33 
    34 The first one defines \ref lemon::ListGraph "ListGraph",
    35 the "Swiss army knife" graph implementation.
    36 \dontinclude graph_orientation.cc
    37 \skipline list_graph
    38 
    39 The next is  to read a \ref graph-io-page ".lgf" (Lemon Graph Format) file.
    40 \skipline reader
    41 
    42 This provides us with some special purpose graph \ref maps "maps".
    43 \skipline iterable
    44 
    45 The following header defines a simple data structure to store and manipulate
    46 planar coordinates. It will be used to draw the result.
    47 \skipline xy
    48 
    49 And finally, this header contains a simple graph drawing utility.
    50 \skipline eps
    51 
    52 As we don't want to type in \ref lemon "lemon::" million times, the
    53 following line seems to be useful.
    54 \skipline namespace
    55 
    56 The following <tt>typedef</tt>s will also save a lot of typing.
    57 \skip typedef
    58 \until InEdgeIt
    59 
    60 \subsection go-alg-main The main() function
    61 
    62 Well, we are ready to start <tt>main()</tt>.
    63 \skip main
    64 \until {
    65 
    66 First we check whether the program is called with exactly 1 parameter.
    67 If it isn't, we print a short help message end exit.
    68 The vast majority of people would probably skip this block.
    69 \skip if
    70 \until }
    71 
    72 Now, we read a graph \c g, and a map \c f containing
    73 the in-deg requirements from a \ref graph-io-page ".lgf (Lemon Graph Format)"
    74 file. To generate the output picture, we also read the node titles (\c id) and
    75 coordinates (\c coords).
    76 So, first we create the graph
    77 \skipline ListGraph
    78 and the corresponding NodeMaps.
    79 \skipline NodeMap
    80 \until coords
    81 \note The graph must be given to the maps' constructor.
    82 
    83 Then, the following block will read these data from the file, or exit if
    84 the file is missing or corrupt.
    85 \skip try
    86 \until }
    87 \until }
    88 
    89 The algorithm needs a "level" integer value assigned to each node. In the
    90 beginning, the nodes are on level 0.
    91 \skipline level
    92 
    93 The deficiency (\c def) of a node is the in-degree requirement minus the 
    94 actual in-degree.
    95 
    96 \skip def
    97 \until subMap
    98 
    99 A node is \e active if its deficiency is positive (i.e. if it doesn't meet
   100 the degree requirement).
   101 \skip active
   102 \until def
   103 
   104 We also store in a bool map indicating which edges are reverted. Actually this is only
   105 used to draw these edges with different color in the output picture. The
   106 algorithm will update this map called \c rev, but will not use it otherwise.
   107 \skip rev
   108 \until reversed
   109 
   110 The variable \c nodeNum will refer to the number of nodes.
   111 \skipline nodeNum
   112 
   113 Here comes the algorithms itself. 
   114 In each iteration we choose an active node (\c act will store it). If there is
   115 no such a node, then the orientation is feasible so we are done.
   116 \skip act
   117 \until while
   118 
   119 Then we check if there exists an edge leaving this node that steps down exactly
   120 one level.
   121 \skip OutEdge
   122 \until while
   123 
   124 If there exists, we decrease the "activity" of the node \c act by reverting
   125 this egde.
   126 Fortunately, \ref lemon::ListGraph "ListGraph"
   127 has a special function \ref lemon::ListGraph::reverseEdge() "reverseEdge()"
   128 that makes this easy.
   129 We also have to update the maps \c def and
   130 \c rev.
   131 \skipline if
   132 \skip if
   133 \until }
   134 Otherwise (i.e. if there is no edge stepping down one level). We lift up the
   135 current active node \c act. If it reaches level \c nodeNum, then there
   136 exists no appropriate orientation so we stop.
   137 \skipline else
   138 \skipline if
   139 \skipline return
   140 \until }
   141 \until }
   142 \until }
   143 
   144 Believe it or not, this algorithm works and runs fast.
   145 
   146 Finally, we print the obtained orientation. Note, how the different
   147 \c bool values of
   148 \c rev are transformed into different \ref lemon::Color "RGB color"s
   149 using the class
   150 \ref lemon::ColorSet "ColorSet"
   151 and the \ref map_adaptors "map adaptor" called
   152 \ref lemon::ComposeMap "composeMap".
   153 
   154 \skip graphToEps
   155 \until run
   156 
   157 
   158 \until end of main
   159 
   160 Finally here are again the list of the used include files (because I can't turn
   161 this section off.)
   162 
   163 */
   164 
   165 }