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Deleting Vertices to Bound Path Length
September 1994 (vol. 43 no. 9)
pp. 1091-1096
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D. Paik, S. Reddy, S. Sahni, "Deleting Vertices to Bound Path Length," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 1091-1096, September, 1994.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/12.312117,
author = {D. Paik and S. Reddy and S. Sahni},
title = {Deleting Vertices to Bound Path Length},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Computers},
volume = {43},
number = {9},
issn = {0018-9340},
year = {1994},
pages = {1091-1096},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/12.312117},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Computers
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Examines the vertex deletion problem for weighted directed acyclic graphs (WDAGs). The objective is to delete the fewest number of vertices so that the resulting WDAG has no path of length

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Index Terms:
directed graphs; computational complexity; vertex deletion problem; path length bound; weighted directed acyclic graphs; NP-hard problems; linear time; rooted tree; quadratic time; series-parallel graph.
Citation:
D. Paik, S. Reddy, S. Sahni, "Deleting Vertices to Bound Path Length," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 1091-1096, Sept. 1994, doi:10.1109/12.312117
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