An algorithm for computing cutpoints in finite metric spaces

Dress, Andreas W. M., Huber, Katharina T., Koolen, Jacobus, Moulton, Vincent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9371-6435 and Spillner, Andreas (2010) An algorithm for computing cutpoints in finite metric spaces. Journal of Classification, 27 (2). pp. 158-172.

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Abstract

The theory of the tight span, a cell complex that can be associated to every metric D, offers a unifying view on existing approaches for analyzing distance data, in particular for decomposing a metric D into a sum of simpler metrics as well as for representing it by certain specific edge-weighted graphs, often referred to as realizations of D. Many of these approaches involve the explicit or implicit computation of the so-called cutpoints of (the tight span of) D, such as the algorithm for computing the “building blocks” of optimal realizations of D recently presented by A. Hertz and S. Varone. The main result of this paper is an algorithm for computing the set of these cutpoints for a metric D on a finite set with n elements in O(n3) time. As a direct consequence, this improves the run time of the aforementioned O(n6)-algorithm by Hertz and Varone by “three orders of magnitude”.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology > Phylogenetics (former - to 2018)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology > Computational biology of RNA (former - to 2018)
Depositing User: Vishal Gautam
Date Deposited: 11 Mar 2011 16:16
Last Modified: 15 Jun 2023 23:45
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/22427
DOI: 10.1007/s00357-010-9055-7

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