International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 74 - Number 3 |
Year of Publication: 2013 |
Authors: Madhu Lakshmi, Pradeep Kumar Kaushik, Nitin Arora |
10.5120/12864-9693 |
Madhu Lakshmi, Pradeep Kumar Kaushik, Nitin Arora . Novel Approximation Algorithm for Calculating Maximum Flow in a Graph. International Journal of Computer Applications. 74, 3 ( July 2013), 14-23. DOI=10.5120/12864-9693
In this paper a new approximation algorithm for calculating the min-cut tree of an undirected edge-weighted graph has been proposed. This algorithm runs in , where V is the number of vertices in the given graph and d is the degree of the graph. It is a significant improvement over time complexities of existing solutions. However, because of an assumption it does not produce correct result for all sort of graphs but for the dense graphs success rate is more than 90%. Moreover in the unsuccessful cases, the deviation from actual result is very less and for most of the pairs we obtain correct values of max-flow or min-cut. This algorithm is implemented in JAVA language and checked for many input cases.