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Mining Posets from Linear Orders

Fernandez, Proceso L. and Heath, Lenwood S. and Ramakrishnan, Naren and Vergara, John Paul C. (2009) Mining Posets from Linear Orders . Technical Report TR-09-16, Computer Science, Virginia Tech.

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Abstract

There has been much research on the combinatorial problem of generating the linear extensions of a given poset. This paper focuses on the reverse of that problem, where the input is a set of linear orders, and the goal is to construct a poset or set of posets that generates the input. Such a problem finds applications in computational neuroscience, systems biology, paleontology, and physical plant engineering. In this paper, several algorithms are presented for efficiently finding a single poset that generates the input set of linear orders. The variation of the problem where a minimum set of posets that cover the input is also explored. It is found that the problem is polynomially solvable for one class of simple posets (kite(2) posets) but NP-complete for a related class (hammock(2,2,2) posets).

Item Type:Departmental Technical Report
Keywords:partial orders, posets, linear extensions
Subjects:Computer Science > Algorithms and Data Structure
ID Code:1083
Deposited By:Administrator, Eprints
Deposited On:29 July 2009