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On certificates that a matrix does not have the Consecutive Ones Property

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Thesis type
(Thesis) M.Sc.
Date created
2011-11-24
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Abstract
A binary matrix has the consecutive ones property (C1P) if there exists a permutation of its columns which makes the 1s consecutive in every row. The C1P has many applications which range from computational biology to optimization. We give an overview of the C1P and its connections to other related problems. The main contribution of this thesis is about certificates of non-C1Pness. The notion of incompatibility graph of a binary matrix was introduced in [McConnell, SODA 2004] where it is shown that odd cycles of this graph provide a certificate for a non-C1P matrix. A bound of k + 2 was claimed for the smallest odd cycle of a non-C1P matrix with k columns. We show that this result can be obtained directly via Tucker patterns, and that the correct bound is k + 2 when k is even, but k + 3 when k is odd. Furthermore we empirically study the minimal conflicting set certificate on synthetic data.
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Thesis advisor: Stephen, Tamon
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