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Packing of (0, 1)-matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2006

Stéphane Vialette*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI), UMR 8623, Bât. 490, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France; [email protected]
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Abstract

The MATRIX PACKING DOWN problem asks to find a row permutation of a given (0,1)-matrix in such a way that the total sum of the first non-zero column indexes is maximized. We study the computational complexity of this problem. We prove that the MATRIX PACKING DOWN problem is NP-complete even when restricted to zero trace symmetric (0,1)-matrices or to (0,1)-matrices with at most two 1's per column. Also, as intermediate results, we introduce several new simple graph layout problems which are proved to be NP-complete.

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© EDP Sciences, 2006

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