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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 15 No. 3, pp. 407-417


Parallel Decomposition of Generalized Series-Parallel Graphs


Chin-Wen Ho, Sun-Yuan Hsieh+ and Gen-Huey Chen+
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering 
National Central University 
Chung-Li, Taiwan 320, R.O.C. +Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering 
National Taiwan University 
Taipei, Taiwan 106, R.O.C.


    Generalized series-parallel (GSP) graphs belong to the class of decomposable graphs which can be represented by their decomposition trees. Given a decomposition tree of a GSP graph, there are many graph-theoretic problems which can be solved efficiently. An efficient parallel algorithm for constructing a decomposition tree of a given GSP graph is presented. It takes O(logn) time with C(mn) processors on a CRCW PRAM, whereC(mn) is the number of processors required to find connected components of a graph with m edges and n vertices in logarithmic time. Based on our algorithmic results, we also derive some properties for GSP graphs, which may be of interest in and of themselves.


Keywords: parallel algorithm, generalized series-parallel graph, CRCW PRAM, decomposable graph, decomposition tree

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