FAW 2014: Frontiers in Algorithmics pp 330-342 | Cite as

Dynamic Matchings in Left Weighted Convex Bipartite Graphs

  • Quan Zu
  • Miaomiao Zhang
  • Bin Yu
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 8497)

Abstract

We consider the problem which is dynamically maintaining a maximum weight matching in a left weighted convex bipartite graph G = (V,E), V = X ∪ Y, in which each x ∈ X has an associated weight, and neighbors of each x ∈ X form an interval in the ordered Y set. The maintenance includes update operations (vertices and edges insertions and deletions) and query operations (inquiries of a vertex matching information). We reduce this problem to the corresponding unweighted problem and design an algorithm that maintains the update operations in O(log3|V|) amortized time per update. In addition, we develop a data structure to obtain the matching status of a vertex (whether it is matched) in constant worst-case time, and find the pair of a matched vertex (with which it is matched) in worst-case O(k) time, where k is not greater than the cardinality of the maximum weight matching.

Keywords

Dynamic Matching Weighted Convex Bipartite Graph Matroid BST Implicit Representation 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Quan Zu
    • 1
  • Miaomiao Zhang
    • 1
  • Bin Yu
    • 1
  1. 1.School of Software EngineeringTongji UniversityShanghaiChina

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