An incremental algorithm for computing the transversal hypergraph

Abstract

. In this paper we present an incremental algorithm for computing the transversal hypergraph. Our algorithm is an optimized version of Berge’s algorithm [2] for solving the transversal hypergraph problem. The original algorithm of Berge is the simplest and most direct scheme for generating all minimal transversals of a hypergraph. Here we present an optimized version of Berge’s algorithm that we call BergeOpt . We show that BergeOpt can significantly reduce the number of expensive inclusion tests