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Efficient parallel modular decomposition (extended abstract)

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Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 1995)

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Modular decomposition plays an important role in the recognition of comparability graphs and permutation graphs [12]. We prove that modular decomposition can be done in in polylogarithmic time with a linear processor bound.

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  1. Basser Dept. of Computer Science, University of Sydney, 2006, NSW, Australia

    Elias Dahlhaus

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Dahlhaus, E. (1995). Efficient parallel modular decomposition (extended abstract). In: Nagl, M. (eds) Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science. WG 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1017. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60618-1_83

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