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A shortest augmenting path algorithm for dense and sparse linear assignment problems

Authors: R. Jonker, A. Volgenant

Published: 1987 (Journal Paper)

Source: Computing

Algorithm: Jonker-Volgenant Algorithm

DOI: 10.1007/BF02278710

Summary

Abstract

We develop a shortest augmenting path algorithm for the linear assignment problem. It contains new initialization routines and a special implementation of Dijkstra's shortest path method. For both dense and sparse problems computational experiments show this algorithm to be uniformly faster than the best algorithms from the literature. A Pascal implementation is presented.