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Changeset 768:0a42883c8221 in lemon-main for doc


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08/12/09 09:45:15 (15 years ago)
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Peter Kovacs <kpeter@…>
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Separate group for the min mean cycle classes (#179)

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    393393/**
     394@defgroup min_mean_cycle Minimum Mean Cycle Algorithms
     395@ingroup algs
     396\brief Algorithms for finding minimum mean cycles.
     397
     398This group contains the algorithms for finding minimum mean cycles.
     399
     400The \e minimum \e mean \e cycle \e problem is to find a directed cycle
     401of minimum mean length (cost) in a digraph.
     402The mean length of a cycle is the average length of its arcs, i.e. the
     403ratio between the total length of the cycle and the number of arcs on it.
     404
     405This 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
     407conservative if and only if there is no directed cycle of negative total
     408length. For an arbitrary length function, the negative of the minimum
     409cycle mean is the smallest \f$\epsilon\f$ value so that increasing the
     410arc lengths uniformly by \f$\epsilon\f$ results in a conservative length
     411function.
     412
     413LEMON 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.
     418
     419In practice, the Howard algorithm proved to be by far the most efficient
     420one, though the best known theoretical bound on its running time is
     421exponential.
     422Both Karp and HartmannOrlin algorithms run in time O(ne) and use space
     423O(n<sup>2</sup>+e), but the latter one is typically faster due to the
     424applied early termination scheme.
     425*/
     426
     427/**
    394428@defgroup graph_properties Connectivity and Other Graph Properties
    395429@ingroup algs
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