Research Article

An Efficient Algorithm for Decomposition of Partially Ordered Sets

Table 1

Six different datasets of standard posets evaluate the proposed algorithm.

No.PosetWidthCaseFelsner et al. [3], O(mn2) =O (kn2)Algorithm 1, O (kn)

1Chain poset1best caseO (n2)O (n)
2K-tower2best caseO (n2)O (n)
3Divisor posetlog nAverage caseO (n2 log n)O (n log n)
4Crown posetn/2worst caseO (n3)O (n2)
52n-cycle posetn/2worst caseO (n3)O (n2)
6Antichain posetn − 1worst caseO (n3)O (n2)