2010
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14165-2_45
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On the Complexity of Searching in Trees: Average-Case Minimization

Abstract: Abstract. The well known binary search method can be described as the process of identifying some marked node from a line graph T by successively querying edges. An edge query e asks in which of the two subpaths induced by T \ e the marked node lies. This procedure can be naturally generalized to the case where T = (V, E) is a tree instead of a line. The problem of determining a tree search strategy minimizing the number of queries in the worst case is solvable in linear time [Onak et al. FOCS'06, Mozes et al… Show more

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“…A considerable number of papers about search in partially ordered sets have been published, see e.g. [CDKL04,MOW08,JCLM10]. In the even more general Binary Identification Problem, the input is a number of subsets S 1 , .…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A considerable number of papers about search in partially ordered sets have been published, see e.g. [CDKL04,MOW08,JCLM10]. In the even more general Binary Identification Problem, the input is a number of subsets S 1 , .…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For tree-like partial orders, one can find a minimum height search tree in linear time [3][4][5]. In contrast, the weighted version of the tree-like problem (where the elements have weights and the goal is to minimize the average height of the search tree) is NP-hard [6] although there is a constant-factor approximation [7]. Most of these results operate in the edge query model which we review in Sec.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The reason is that Optimal Divide and Query can be implemented with a linear cost whereas the problem that we want to solve in the Divide by Queries strategy is a NP-hard problem as demonstrated in [57]. In fact, in our experiments we need around half an hour to obtain which is the optimal node in an ET with 20 nodes using a brute-force algorithm.…”
Section: Open Lines Of Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To explain this strategy, we show the beginnings that it should fulfill, and we provide an approximation [49]. We should make clear that, as demonstrated in [57], the problem we want to solve is a NP-hard problem, and thus we only present methods to approximate the solution.…”
Section: 1 Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%