Re: [Boost-users] [BGL] Longest path from u to v in a directed weighted graph

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [BGL] Longest path from u to v in a directed weighted graph
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-14 16:15:32

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Shaun Jackman wrote:

> Hi Murilo,
>
> The subgraph between u and v is a DAG — that is the subgraph reachable
> from u without travelling through v. The rest of the graph is not
> acyclic.

In that case, there is a dag_shortest_paths algorithm that you can use 
(negating the edge weights).  You might need to use filtered_graph (with a 
prior BFS) to isolate the part of the graph between u and v, or a visitor 
in the shortest path algorithm might work instead.

-- Jeremiah Willcock

>
> Cheers,
> Shaun
>
> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 17:21 -0700, Murilo Adriano Vasconcelos wrote:
>> The graph is a DAG? If not, that is a NP-Complete problem and Dijkstra wouldn't help you.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Murilo Adriano Vasconcelos
>> http://murilo.wordpress.com
>>
>> Em 13/04/2011, Ã s 21:11, Shaun Jackman <sjackman_at_[hidden]> escreveu:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to find the longest path from vertex u to vertex v through
>>> a directed graph with positive edge weights. I know that u and v are
>>> choke points in the graph, in that if you start from vertex u and start
>>> following random edges, you will end up at vertex v in pretty short
>>> order. Is dijkstra_shortest_paths the best function for this purpose?
>>>
>>> The vertices reachable from u without travelling through v form a small
>>> subgraph of the total graph. I want to avoid exploring beyond v, and I
>>> definitely don't need to know the distances to vertices beyond v.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Shaun
>
>
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