基于蚁群优化的多水平图划分算法

Partitioning is a fundamental problem with applications to many areas including data mining, parellel processing and Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) design. An effective multi-level algorithm for bisecting graph is proposed. During its coarsening phase, an improved matching approach based on the global information of the graph core is developed withits guidance function. During the refinement phase, the vertex gain is exploited as ant’s heuristic information and a positive feedback method based on pheromone trails is used to find the global approximate bipartitioning. It is implemented with American National Standards Institute (ANSI) C and compared to MeTiS. The experimental evaluation shows that it performs well and produces encouraging solutions on 18 different graphs benchmarks.