doi:10.1016/S0167-8655(02)00256-8
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Matching graphs by pivoting
a FEI Electron Optics, SEM Software Group, Building HAF13, Postbus 218, 5600MD, Eindhoven, Netherlands
b Dipartimento di Informatica, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Via Torino 155, 30172, Venezia Mestre, Italy
Available online 8 October 2002.
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Abstract
Motivated by a recent (continuous) quadratic formulation, in this paper we present a pivoting-based heuristic for graph matching based on the corresponding linear complementarity problem. Experiments are presented which demonstrate the potential of the proposed method.
Author Keywords: Graph matching; Linear complementarity problem; Maximum clique; Maximum common subgraph; Quadratic programming; Pivoting
Fig. 1. Results of matching 50-node random graphs, with varying levels of corruption, using PBH and replicator dynamics. The x-axis represents the (approximate) density of the matched graphs, while the y-axis represents the percentage of correct matches. Here ω is the size of the maximum clique of the association graph, i.e., the size of the maximum isomorphism, and |C| is the size of the isomorphism returned by the algorithms, i.e., the size of the maximal clique found. Figures (a)–(d) correspond to different levels of corruption, i.e., 0%, 10%, 20% and 30%, respectively. All curves represent averages over 20 trials.