Title :
Simple enumeration of minimal cutsets of acyclic directed graph
Author :
Ahmad, S. Hasanuddin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Eng., King Abdul Aziz Univ., Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
fDate :
12/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Two methods are given that use combinations of nodes to enumerate all minimal cutsets. One simply has to enumerate all combinations of orders 1 to N-3 of nodes from 2 to N-1, where N is the total number of nodes. Collecting only those symbols of links of first row of adjacency matrix and in the rows given in a combination that are not in the columns of the combination, a cutset of an acyclic directed graph having all adjacent nodes is obtained. To obtain the cutsets of a general acyclic directed graph, four rules are given for deletion of those combinations that yield redundant and nonminimal subsets. The rules provide a reduced set of combinations, which then gives rise to minimal cutsets of a general graph. Three examples illustrate the algorithms
Keywords :
directed graphs; reliability theory; acyclic directed graph; combinations of nodes; minimal cutsets; network reliability; Algorithm design and analysis; Art; Mathematics; Polynomials; Reliability theory;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on