In this paper, we introduce the problem of computing a minimum edge ranking spanning tree (MERST); i.e., find a spanning tree of a given graph G whose edge ranking is minimum. Although the minimum edge ranking of a given tree can be computed in polynomial time, we show that problem MERST is NP-hard.
A note on bisecting minimum spanning trees
โ Scribed by W. M. Boyce; M. R. Garey; D. S. Johnson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 281 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-3045
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