Abstract

this paper is organized as follows. We begin by presenting some definitions and useful observations in Section 2. In Section 3, we describe the algorithms for distinguishing between graphs of diameter 2 and 4, and the extension to obtaining a ratio 2=3 approximation to the diameter. Then, in Section 4, we apply the ideas developed in estimating the diameter to obtain the promised algorithm for an additive approximation for APSP. Finally, in Section 5 we present an empirical study of the performance of our algorithm for all-pairs shortest paths.

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