Finding All Maximal Contiguous Subsequences of a Sequence of Numbers in O(1) Communication Rounds

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Cáceres, Edson Norberto, Song, Siang Wun
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMS
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2012.149; https://repositorio.ufms.br/handle/123456789/1755
• topic: Otimização Combinatória; Combinatorial Optimization; Arquiteturas e Programação Paralelas; Parallel Architecture and Programming; Algoritmos e Estruturas de Dados; Algorithms and Data Structures; Teoria da Computação; Theory of Computation

Given a sequence A of real numbers, we wish to find a list of all nonoverlapping contiguous subsequences of A that are maximal. A maximal subsequence M of A has the property that no proper subsequence of M has a greater sum of values. Furthermore, M may not be contained properly within any subsequence of A with this property. This problem has several applications in Computational Biology and can be solved sequentially in linear time. We present a BSP/CGM algorithm that solves this problem using p processors in O(|A|=p) time and O(|A|=p) space per processor. The algorithm uses a constant number of communication rounds of size at most O(|A|=p). Thus, the algorithm achieves linear speedup and is highly scalable. To our knowledge, there are no previous known parallel BSP/CGM algorithms to solve this problem.