COIN-OR::LEMON - Graph Library

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2/**
3@defgroup datas Data Structures
4This group describes the several graph structures implemented in LEMON.
5*/
6
7/**
8@defgroup graphs Graph Structures
9@ingroup datas
10\brief Graph structures implemented in LEMON.
11
12The implementation of combinatorial algorithms heavily relies on
13efficient graph implementations. LEMON offers data structures which are
14planned to be easily used in an experimental phase of implementation studies,
15and thereafter the program code can be made efficient by small modifications.
16
17The most efficient implementation of diverse applications require the
18usage of different physical graph implementations. These differences
19appear in the size of graph we require to handle, memory or time usage
20limitations or in the set of operations through which the graph can be
21accessed.  LEMON provides several physical graph structures to meet
22the diverging requirements of the possible users.  In order to save on
23running time or on memory usage, some structures may fail to provide
24some graph features like edge or node deletion.
25
26Alteration of standard containers need a very limited number of
27operations, these together satisfy the everyday requirements.
28In the case of graph structures, different operations are needed which do
29not alter the physical graph, but gives another view. If some nodes or
30edges have to be hidden or the reverse oriented graph have to be used, then
31this is the case. It also may happen that in a flow implementation
32the residual graph can be accessed by another algorithm, or a node-set
33is to be shrunk for another algorithm.
34LEMON also provides a variety of graphs for these requirements called
35\ref graph_adaptors "graph adaptors". Adaptors cannot be used alone but only
36in conjunction with other graph representation.
37
38You are free to use the graph structure that fit your requirements
39the best, most graph algorithms and auxiliary data structures can be used
40with any graph structures.
41*/
42
43/**
44@defgroup semi_adaptors Semi-Adaptors Classes for Graphs
45@ingroup graphs
46\brief Graph types between real graphs and graph adaptors.
47
48Graph types between real graphs and graph adaptors. These classes wrap
49graphs to give new functionality as the adaptors do it. On the other
50hand they are not light-weight structures as the adaptors.
51*/
52
53/**
54@defgroup maps Maps
55@ingroup datas
56\brief Some special purpose map to make life easier.
57
58LEMON provides several special maps that e.g. combine
59new maps from existing ones.
60*/
61
62/**
63@defgroup graph_maps Graph Maps
64@ingroup maps
65\brief Special Graph-Related Maps.
66
67These maps are specifically designed to assign values to the nodes and edges of
68graphs.
69*/
70
71
72/**
73\defgroup map_adaptors Map Adaptors
74\ingroup maps
75\brief Tools to create new maps from existing ones
76
77Map adaptors are used to create "implicit" maps from other maps.
78
79Most of them are \ref lemon::concepts::ReadMap "ReadMap"s. They can
80make arithmetic operations between one or two maps (negation, scaling,
81addition, multiplication etc.) or e.g. convert a map to another one
82of different Value type.
83*/
84
85/**
86@defgroup matrices Matrices
87@ingroup datas
88\brief Two dimensional data storages.
89
90Two dimensional data storages.
91*/
92
93/**
94@defgroup paths Path Structures
95@ingroup datas
96\brief Path structures implemented in LEMON.
97
98LEMON provides flexible data structures
99to work with paths.
100
101All of them have the same interface, especially they can be built or extended
102using a standard Builder subclass. This make is easy to have e.g. the Dijkstra
103algorithm to store its result in any kind of path structure.
104
105\sa lemon::concepts::Path
106
107*/
108
109/**
110@defgroup auxdat Auxiliary Data Structures
111@ingroup datas
112\brief Some data structures implemented in LEMON.
113
114This group describes the data structures implemented in LEMON in
115order to make it easier to implement combinatorial algorithms.
116*/
117
118
119/**
120@defgroup algs Algorithms
121\brief This group describes the several algorithms
122implemented in LEMON.
123
124This group describes the several algorithms
125implemented in LEMON.
126*/
127
128/**
129@defgroup search Graph Search
130@ingroup algs
131\brief This group contains the common graph
132search algorithms.
133
134This group contains the common graph
135search algorithms like Bfs and Dfs.
136*/
137
138/**
139@defgroup shortest_path Shortest Path algorithms
140@ingroup algs
141\brief This group describes the algorithms
142for finding shortest paths.
143
144This group describes the algorithms for finding shortest paths in
145graphs.
146
147*/
148
149/**
150@defgroup max_flow Maximum Flow algorithms
151@ingroup algs
152\brief This group describes the algorithms for finding maximum flows.
153
154This group describes the algorithms for finding maximum flows and
155feasible circulations.
156
157\image html flow.png
158\image latex flow.eps "Graph flow" width=\textwidth
159*/
160
161/**
162@defgroup min_cost_flow Minimum Cost Flow algorithms
163@ingroup algs
164
165\brief This group describes the algorithms
166for finding minimum cost flows and circulations.
167
168This group describes the algorithms for finding minimum cost flows and
169circulations. 
170*/
171
172/**
173@defgroup min_cut Minimum Cut algorithms
174@ingroup algs
175\brief This group describes the algorithms
176for finding minimum cut in graphs.
177
178This group describes the algorithms
179for finding minimum cut in graphs.
180*/
181
182/**
183@defgroup topology Topology related algorithms
184@ingroup algs
185\brief This group describes the algorithms
186for discover the topology of the graphs.
187
188This group describes the algorithms
189for discover the topology of the graphs.
190
191\image html edge_biconnected_components.png
192\image latex edge_biconnected_components.eps "bi-edge-connected components" width=\textwidth
193*/
194
195/**
196@defgroup matching Matching algorithms
197@ingroup algs
198\brief This group describes the algorithms
199for find matchings in graphs and bipartite graphs.
200
201This group provides some algorithm objects and function
202to calculate matchings in graphs and bipartite graphs.
203
204\image html bipartite_matching.png
205\image latex bipartite_matching.eps "Bipartite Matching" width=\textwidth
206
207*/
208
209/**
210@defgroup spantree Minimum Spanning Tree algorithms
211@ingroup algs
212\brief This group contains the algorithms for finding a minimum cost spanning
213tree in a graph
214
215This group contains the algorithms for finding a minimum cost spanning
216tree in a graph
217*/
218
219
220/**
221@defgroup auxalg Auxiliary algorithms
222@ingroup algs
223\brief Some algorithms implemented in LEMON.
224
225This group describes the algorithms in LEMON in order to make
226it easier to implement complex algorithms.
227*/
228
229/**
230@defgroup approx Approximation algorithms
231\brief Approximation algorithms
232
233Approximation and heuristic algorithms
234*/
235
236/**
237@defgroup gen_opt_group General Optimization Tools
238\brief This group describes some general optimization frameworks
239implemented in LEMON.
240
241This group describes some general optimization frameworks
242implemented in LEMON.
243
244*/
245
246/**
247@defgroup lp_group Lp and Mip solvers
248@ingroup gen_opt_group
249\brief Lp and Mip solver interfaces for LEMON.
250
251This group describes Lp and Mip solver interfaces for LEMON. The
252various LP solvers could be used in the same manner with this
253interface.
254
255*/
256
257/**
258@defgroup lp_utils Tools for Lp and Mip solvers
259@ingroup lp_group
260\brief This group adds some helper tools to the Lp and Mip solvers
261implemented in LEMON.
262
263This group adds some helper tools to general optimization framework
264implemented in LEMON.
265*/
266
267/**
268@defgroup metah Metaheuristics
269@ingroup gen_opt_group
270\brief Metaheuristics for LEMON library.
271
272This group contains some metaheuristic optimization tools.
273*/
274
275/**
276@defgroup utils Tools and Utilities
277\brief Tools and Utilities for Programming in LEMON
278
279Tools and Utilities for Programming in LEMON
280*/
281
282/**
283@defgroup gutils Basic Graph Utilities
284@ingroup utils
285\brief This group describes some simple basic graph utilities.
286
287This group describes some simple basic graph utilities.
288*/
289
290/**
291@defgroup misc Miscellaneous Tools
292@ingroup utils
293Here you can find several useful tools for development,
294debugging and testing.
295*/
296
297
298/**
299@defgroup timecount Time measuring and Counting
300@ingroup misc
301Here you can find simple tools for measuring the performance
302of algorithms.
303*/
304
305/**
306@defgroup graphbits Tools for Graph Implementation
307@ingroup utils
308\brief Tools to Make It Easier to Make Graphs.
309
310This group describes the tools that makes it easier to make graphs and
311the maps that dynamically update with the graph changes.
312*/
313
314/**
315@defgroup exceptions Exceptions
316@ingroup utils
317This group contains the exceptions thrown by LEMON library
318*/
319
320/**
321@defgroup io_group Input-Output
322\brief Several Graph Input-Output methods
323
324Here you can find tools for importing and exporting graphs
325and graph related data. Now it supports the LEMON format, the
326\c DIMACS format and the encapsulated postscript format.
327*/
328
329/**
330@defgroup lemon_io Lemon Input-Output
331@ingroup io_group
332\brief Reading and writing LEMON format
333
334Methods for reading and writing LEMON format. More about this
335format you can find on the \ref graph-io-page "Graph Input-Output"
336tutorial pages.
337*/
338
339/**
340@defgroup section_io Section readers and writers
341@ingroup lemon_io
342\brief Section readers and writers for lemon Input-Output.
343
344Here you can find which section readers and writers can attach to
345the LemonReader and LemonWriter.
346*/
347
348/**
349@defgroup item_io Item Readers and Writers
350@ingroup lemon_io
351\brief Item readers and writers for lemon Input-Output.
352
353The Input-Output classes can handle more data type by example
354as map or attribute value. Each of these should be written and
355read some way. The module make possible to do this. 
356*/
357
358/**
359@defgroup eps_io Postscript exporting
360@ingroup io_group
361\brief General \c EPS drawer and graph exporter
362
363This group contains general \c EPS drawing methods and special
364graph exporting tools.
365*/
366
367
368/**
369@defgroup concept Concepts
370\brief Skeleton classes and concept checking classes
371
372This group describes the data/algorithm skeletons and concept checking
373classes implemented in LEMON.
374
375The purpose of the classes in this group is fourfold.
376 
377- These classes contain the documentations of the concepts. In order
378  to avoid document multiplications, an implementation of a concept
379  simply refers to the corresponding concept class.
380
381- These classes declare every functions, <tt>typedef</tt>s etc. an
382  implementation of the concepts should provide, however completely
383  without implementations and real data structures behind the
384  interface. On the other hand they should provide nothing else. All
385  the algorithms working on a data structure meeting a certain concept
386  should compile with these classes. (Though it will not run properly,
387  of course.) In this way it is easily to check if an algorithm
388  doesn't use any extra feature of a certain implementation.
389
390- The concept descriptor classes also provide a <em>checker class</em>
391  that makes it possible check whether a certain implementation of a
392  concept indeed provides all the required features.
393
394- Finally, They can serve as a skeleton of a new implementation of a concept.
395
396*/
397
398
399/**
400@defgroup graph_concepts Graph Structure Concepts
401@ingroup concept
402\brief Skeleton and concept checking classes for graph structures
403
404This group contains the skeletons and concept checking classes of LEMON's
405graph structures and helper classes used to implement these.
406*/
407
408/* --- Unused group
409@defgroup experimental Experimental Structures and Algorithms
410This group contains some Experimental structures and algorithms.
411The stuff here is subject to change.
412*/
413
414/**
415\anchor demoprograms
416
417@defgroup demos Demo programs
418
419Some demo programs are listed here. Their full source codes can be found in
420the \c demo subdirectory of the source tree.
421
422The standard compilation procedure (<tt>./configure;make</tt>) will compile
423them, as well.
424
425*/
426
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