[boost] connected components in adjacency_list graph

4 May 2004

      I am trying to understand why the order in which I add edges to an
adjacency_list graph has some effect on the connected components I get using
incremental_components.  Using the listing below, with Boost release 1.30.0
(also 1.31.0) with g++ 2.95 (cygwin) I get the following:
...
g++ -I./boost_1_31_0 -o ok -ftemplate-depth-40
incremental-components-eg-bug.cpp
...
./ok
rank[0] = 0
rank[1] = 0
rank[2] = 0
rank[3] = 1
rank[4] = 0
parent[0] = 3
parent[1] = 3
parent[2] = 3
parent[3] = 3
parent[4] = 3
component 0 contains: 4 3 2 1 0

This is what I expect.  If I change the order in which I add edges to the
graph, I get a different answer:
...
g++ -I./boost_1_31_0 -DSHOWBUG -o bug -ftemplate-depth-40
incremental-components-eg-bug.cpp
...
./bug
rank[0] = 0
rank[1] = 0
rank[2] = 1
rank[3] = 2
rank[4] = 0
parent[0] = 3
parent[1] = 2
parent[2] = 3
parent[3] = 3
parent[4] = 3
component 0 contains: 4 3 2 0

This is not what I expect.  The single connected component has lost a
vertex.  But it should be the same graph, the only difference being the
order in which I called add_edge().

Is this a bug or a misunderstanding on my part?  Any advice would be
appreciated...

Jeff

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <utility>
#include <boost/graph/adjacency_list.hpp>
#include <boost/pending/disjoint_sets.hpp>
#include <boost/graph/incremental_components.hpp>

int
main(int, char *[])
{
  using namespace boost;
  // Create a graph
  typedef adjacency_list < vecS, vecS, undirectedS > Graph;
  typedef graph_traits < Graph >::vertex_descriptor Vertex;
  const int N = 5;
  Graph G(N);
  add_edge(0, 3, G);
  add_edge(0, 4, G);
#ifndef SHOWBUG
  add_edge(1, 4, G);
  add_edge(1, 2, G);
#else
  add_edge(1, 2, G);
  add_edge(1, 4, G);
#endif

  // create the disjoint-sets object, which requires rank and parent vertex
properties
  std::vector < Vertex > rank(num_vertices(G));
  std::vector < Vertex > parent(num_vertices(G));
  typedef graph_traits<Graph>::vertices_size_type* Rank;
  typedef Vertex* Parent;
  disjoint_sets < Rank, Parent > ds(&rank[0], &parent[0]);

  // determine the connected components, storing the results in the
disjoint-sets object
  initialize_incremental_components(G, ds);
  incremental_components(G, ds);
  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < rank.size(); ++i) {
    std::cout << "rank[" << i << "] = " << rank[i] << std::endl;
  }
  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < parent.size(); ++i) {
    std::cout << "parent[" << i << "] = " << parent[i] << std::endl;
  }

  typedef component_index < unsigned int >Components;
  Components components(parent.begin(), parent.end());
  for (Components::size_type i = 0; i < components.size(); ++i) {
    std::cout << "component " << i << " contains: ";
    for (Components::value_type::iterator j = components[i].begin();
         j != components[i].end(); ++j)
      std::cout << *j << " ";
    std::cout << std::endl;
  }

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

[boost] connected components in adjacency_list graph

Kommers, Jefferson