Survey of polynomial transformations between NP-complete problems

نویسندگان

  • Jorge A. Ruiz-Vanoye
  • Joaquín Pérez Ortega
  • Rodolfo A. Pazos Rangel
  • Ocotlán Díaz-Parra
  • Juan Frausto Solís
  • Héctor J. Fraire H.
  • Laura Cruz Reyes
  • José Antonio Martínez Flores
چکیده

This paper aims at being a guide to understand polynomial transformations and polynomial reductions between NP-complete problems by presenting the methodologies for polynomial reductions/transformations and the differences between reductions and transformations. To this end the article shows examples of polynomial reductions/transformations and the restrictions to reduce/transform between NP-complete problems. Finally, this paper includes a digraph with the historical reductions/transformations between instances of NP-complete problems and introduces the term family of polynomial transformations. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Computational Applied Mathematics

دوره 235  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011