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1995 Technical Reports

Using Domain Decomposition to find Graph Bisectors

Cleve Ashcraft and Joseph W.H. Liu

Technical Report CS-95-08

York University

November 11, 1995

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a three-step approach to find a vertex bisector of a graph. The first step finds a domain decomposition of the graph, a set of connected subgraphs, the domains, and a multisector, the remaining vertices that separate the domains from each other. The second step uses a block variant of the Kernighan-Lin scheme to find a a bisector that is a subset of the multisector. The third step improves the bisector by bipartite graph matching. Experimental results show this domain decomposition method finds graph partitions that compare favorably with a state-of-the-art multilevel partitioning scheme in both quality and execution time.

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