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- From: jvr@or.math.lgu.spb.su (Joseph Romanovsky)
- Subject: Re: Elimination ordering question
- Reply-To: jvr@or.math.lgu.spb.su
- Organization: University of St-Petersburg
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 08:53:23 GMT
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- sjha+@cs.cmu.edu (Somesh Jha) writes:
- >
- >I need some literature on the following problem. I already have a proof that
- >it is NP-complete. Given a family of sets which are subsets of
- >{x_1,x_2, ... ,x_n}. I define what it means to eliminate x_i.
- >We union together all the sets which contain x_i, remove x_i from it,
- >and replace all these sets by the new set. Now we get a new family of
- >sets. The problem is to find the best elimination ordering.
-
- See: U.Bertele, F.Brioshi, Nonserial dynamic programming,
- Academic Press, N.-Y., 1972
- They used this procedure for sequential elimination of variables
- in optimization problems, and considered the secondary optimization
- problem of the best ordering of these eliminations.
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- - Joseph Romanovsky
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