Categories and Subject Descriptors: C.1.2 [Processor Architectures]: Multiple Data Stream Architectures (Multiprocessors) -- parallel processors; F.2.1 [Analysis of Algorithms and Problem Complexity]: Numerical Algorithms and Problems -- computation on matrices; G.1.0 [Numerical Analysis] -- parallel algorithms; G.1.3 [Numerical Analysis]: Numerical Linear Algebra -- sparse and very large systems; G.1.6 [Numerical Analysis]: Optimization -- linear programming; G.2.1 [Discrete Mathematics]: Combinatorics -- combinatorial algorithms; G.2.2 [Discrete Mathematics]: Graph Theory -- graph algorithms, network problems, path and circuit problems; I.1.2 [Algebraic Manipulation]: Algorithms -- analysis of algorithms
General Terms: Algorithms, Experimentation, Performance
Additional Key Words and Phrases: Assignment, matching, shortest augmenting paths, traveling salesman problem
Selected references
- Jack Edmonds and Richard M. Karp. Theoretical improvements in algorithmic efficiency for network flow problems. Journal of the ACM, 19(2):248-264, April 1972.