Blossom IV swMATH ID: 4781 Software Authors: Cook, William; Rohe, André Description: Computing minimum-weight perfect matchings. We make several observations on the implementation of Edmonds’ blossom algorithm for solving minimum-weight perfect-matching problems and we present computational results for geometric problem instances ranging in size from 1,000 nodes up to 5,000,000 nodes. A key feature in our implementation is the use of multiple search trees with an individual dual-change \(varepsilon\) for each tree. As a benchmark of the algorithm’s performance, solving a 100,000-node geometric instance on a 200 Mhz Pentium-Pro computer takes approximately 3 minutes. Homepage: http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~wcook/blossom4/ Keywords: Edmonds blossom algorithm; computational algorithms; perfect matchings; networks/graphs; minimum-weight Related Software: TSPLIB; Blossom V; DIMACS; LEDA; MESHPART; CPLEX; Algorithm 97; MuRoCo; OGDF; GraphBase; Blossom-Quad; Q-Morph; Gmsh; EMD; optmatch; Triangle; VLSI; Boost; Concorde; Boost C++ Libraries Cited in: 34 Publications all top 5 Cited by 69 Authors 2 Briskorn, Dirk 2 Caprara, Alberto 2 Glickman, Mark E. 2 Hougardy, Stefan 2 Laporte, Gilbert 2 Müller-Hannemann, Matthias 2 Schwartz, Alexander 2 Walshaw, Chris H. 1 Bečka, Martin 1 Bordenave, Charles 1 Buss, Martin 1 Cook, William John 1 Delon, Julie 1 Derigs, Ulrich 1 Domingo Colomer, Laia 1 Drake, Doratha E. 1 Drexl, Andreas 1 Eirinakis, Pavlos 1 Fang, Shu-Cherng 1 Fekete, Sándor P. 1 Gendreau, Michel 1 Geuzainet, C. 1 Horbach, Andrei 1 Jensen, Shane T. 1 Johnen, Amaury 1 Johnson, David Stifler 1 Kleywegt, Anton J. 1 Kolmogorov, Vladimir 1 Koyak, Robert A. 1 Kuhn, Daniel 1 Lambrechts, Jonathan 1 Lancia, Giuseppe G. 1 Liers, Frauke 1 Lodi, Andrea 1 Marchandise, Emilie 1 McGeoch, Lyle A. 1 Medaglia, Andrés L. 1 Mehlhorn, Kurt 1 Muñoz-Tapia, Ramon 1 Ng, See-Kiong 1 Nori, Vijay S. 1 Okša, Gabriel 1 Pardella, Gregor Leszek 1 Remacle, Jean-François 1 Rizzi, Romeo 1 Rodrigues, Brian 1 Rohe, André 1 Rohrmüller, Florian 1 Rosenbaum, Paul Richard 1 Rujeerapaiboon, Napat 1 Ruth, David M. 1 Salomon, Julien 1 Savelsbergh, Martin W. P. 1 Schafer, Guido 1 Schindler, Kilian 1 Seny, Bruno 1 Skotiniotis, Michalis 1 Small, Dylan S. 1 Sobolevski, Andrei Nikolaevich 1 Subramani, Krishnan 1 Toroslu, Ismail Hakki 1 Üçoluk, Göktürk 1 Vajteršic, Marián 1 van der Veen, Jan C. 1 Wiesemann, Wolfram 1 Williamson, Matthew 1 Wøhlk, Sanne 1 Wollherr, Dirk 1 Xu, Zhou all top 5 Cited in 22 Serials 3 Computers & Operations Research 3 European Journal of Operational Research 3 ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics 2 Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 1 Information Processing Letters 1 Physics Letters. A 1 Information Sciences 1 International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 1 Journal of the American Statistical Association 1 Journal of the Operational Research Society 1 Networks 1 Parallel Computing 1 Algorithmica 1 Transportation Science 1 Annals of Operations Research 1 Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 1 SIAM Journal on Optimization 1 Computational Optimization and Applications 1 Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) 1 INFORMS Journal on Computing 1 The Annals of Applied Statistics 1 Mathematical Programming Computation all top 5 Cited in 9 Fields 22 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 12 Combinatorics (05-XX) 12 Computer science (68-XX) 5 Statistics (62-XX) 1 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 1 Mechanics of deformable solids (74-XX) 1 Fluid mechanics (76-XX) 1 Quantum theory (81-XX) 1 Information and communication theory, circuits (94-XX) Citations by Year