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In computer science, the Edmonds–Karp algorithm is an implementation of the Ford–Fulkerson method for computing the maximum flow in a flow network in (| | | |) time. The algorithm was first published by Yefim Dinitz in 1970, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and independently published by Jack Edmonds and Richard Karp in 1972. [ 3 ]
The Ford–Fulkerson method or Ford–Fulkerson algorithm (FFA) is a greedy algorithm that computes the maximum flow in a flow network.It is sometimes called a "method" instead of an "algorithm" as the approach to finding augmenting paths in a residual graph is not fully specified [1] or it is specified in several implementations with different running times. [2]
Over the years, various improved solutions to the maximum flow problem were discovered, notably the shortest augmenting path algorithm of Edmonds and Karp and independently Dinitz; the blocking flow algorithm of Dinitz; the push-relabel algorithm of Goldberg and Tarjan; and the binary blocking flow algorithm of Goldberg and Rao.
Dinitz's algorithm and the Edmonds–Karp algorithm (published in 1972) both independently showed that in the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm, if each augmenting path is the shortest one, then the length of the augmenting paths is non-decreasing and the algorithm always terminates.
The Edmonds–Karp algorithm, a faster strongly polynomial algorithm for maximum flow; The Ford–Fulkerson algorithm, a greedy algorithm for maximum flow that is not in general strongly polynomial; The network simplex algorithm, a method based on linear programming but specialized for network flow [1]: 402–460
The push–relabel algorithm is considered one of the most efficient maximum flow algorithms. The generic algorithm has a strongly polynomial O(V 2 E) time complexity, which is asymptotically more efficient than the O(VE 2) Edmonds–Karp algorithm. [2] Specific variants of the algorithms achieve even lower time complexities.
In graph theory, the blossom algorithm is an algorithm for constructing maximum matchings on graphs. The algorithm was developed by Jack Edmonds in 1961, [1] and published in 1965. [2] Given a general graph G = (V, E), the algorithm finds a matching M such that each vertex in V is incident with at most one edge in M and | M | is maximized. The ...
Richard Manning Karp (born January 3, 1935) is an American computer scientist and computational theorist at the University of California, Berkeley.He is most notable for his research in the theory of algorithms, for which he received a Turing Award in 1985, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science in 2004, and the Kyoto Prize in 2008.