Kosaraju's algorithm
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In computer science, Kosaraju's algorithm is an algorithm to find the strongly connected components of a directed graph. Aho, Hopcroft and Ullman credit it to a unpublished paper from 1978 by S. Rao Kosaraju. It makes use of the fact that the transpose graph (the same graph with the direction of every edge reversed) has exactly the same connected components as the original graph.
[edit] References
- Alfred V. Aho, John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman. The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms. Addison-Wesley, 1974.
- Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein. Introduction to Algorithms, 2nd edition. The MIT Press, 2001. ISBN 0-262-03293-7.
