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1996 Technical Reports

Applications of Dulmage-Mendelsohn Decomposition and Network Flow to Graph Bisection Improvement

Cleve Ashcraft and Joseph W.H. Liu

Technical Report CS-96-05

York University

August 16, 1996

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the use of the Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition and network flow on bipartite graphs in improving a graph bisection partition. Given a graph partition [S,B,W] with a vertex separator S and two disconnected components B and W, different strategies are considered based on the Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition in reducing the separator size |S| and/or the imbalance between B and W. For the case when the vertices are weighted, we relate this with the network flow problem. Experimental results are provided to demonstrate that these techniques can be used in improving good graph bisection partitions from existing partitioning schemes.

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