ICALP

Minimum Chain Cover in Almost Linear Time

A minimum chain cover (MCC) of a $k$-width directed acyclic graph (DAG) $G = (V, E)$ is a set of $k$ chains (paths in the transitive closure) of $G$ such that every vertex appears in at least one chain in the cover. We present an algorithm running in time $O(T_{MF}(|E|) + (|V|+|E|)\log{k})$.