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Author: Yangjun Chen

Affiliation: University of Winnipeg, Canada

Keyword(s): Graphs, DAGs, Chains, Paths, Transitive Closure, Reachability Queries.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Databases and Information Systems Integration ; Enterprise Information Systems ; Object-Oriented Database Systems

Abstract: The problem of decomposing a DAG (directed acyclic graph) into a set of disjoint chains has many applications in data engineering. One of them is the compression of transi¬tive closures to support reachability queries on whether a given node v in a directed graph G is reachable from another node u through a path in G. Recently, an interesting algorithm is proposed by Chen et al. (Y. Chen and Y. Chen, 2008) which claims to be able to decompose G into a minimal set of dis¬joint chains in O(n2 + bn ) time, where n is the number of the nodes of G, and b is G’s width, defined to be the size of a largest node subset U of G such that for every pair of nodes u, v  U, there does not exist a path from u to v or from v to u. However, in some cases, it fails to do so. In this paper, we analyze this algorithm and show the problem. More importantly, a new algorithm is discussed, which can always find a minimal set of disjoint chains in the same time complexity as Chen’s.

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Paper citation in several formats:
Chen, Y. (2009). DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS AND DISJOINT CHAINS. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-8111-84-5; ISSN 2184-4992, SciTePress, pages 17-24. DOI: 10.5220/0001858300170024

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JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS
TI - DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS AND DISJOINT CHAINS
SN - 978-989-8111-84-5
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PY - 2009
SP - 17
EP - 24
DO - 10.5220/0001858300170024
PB - SciTePress