Optimal Reduction of Two-Terminal Directed Acyclic Graphs

Abstract
. Algorithms for series-parallel graphs can be extended to arbitrary two-terminal dagsif node reductions are used along with series and parallel reductions. A node reduction contractsa vertex with unit in-degree (out-degree) into its sole incoming (outgoing) neighbor. We give anO(n2:5) algorithm for minimizing node reductions, based on vertex cover in a transitive auxiliarygraph. Applications include the analysis of PERT networks, dynamic programming approaches tonetwork problems, and...

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