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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2008
Mohsen Bayati, Cambridge, MA (US);
Christian H. Borgs, Boston, MA (US);
Alfredo Braunstein, Chieri, IT;
Jennifer T. Chayes, Boston, MA (US);
Riccardo Zecchina, Turin, IT;
Mohsen Bayati, Cambridge, MA (US);
Christian H. Borgs, Boston, MA (US);
Alfredo Braunstein, Chieri, IT;
Jennifer T. Chayes, Boston, MA (US);
Riccardo Zecchina, Turin, IT;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Networks may be analyzed using Steiner trees. In an example embodiment, a method includes acts of receiving, accepting, creating, and analyzing. Data specifying a network is received. Steiner tree parameters are accepted. A Steiner tree model is created on the data specifying the network responsive to the Steiner tree parameters. The Steiner tree model includes a local representation having a depth constraint for neighborhood vertices. The data specifying the network is analyzed to ascertain a Steiner tree solution based on the Steiner tree model, which includes the local representation, and using a locally-oriented combinatorial algorithm.