1. TRAN NGOC VIET - Faculty of Information Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
2. HOANG LE MINH - Faculty of Information Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
3. LE CONG HIEU - Faculty of Information Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
4. TRAN KIM MY VAN - Faculty of Information Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
5. TONG HUNG ANH - Faculty of Information Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
6. NGUYEN TUYEN LINH - Faculty of Information Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
In ordinary graphs the weights of edges and vertices are considered independently where the length of a path is simply the sum of weights of the edges and the vertices on this path. However, in many practical matters, weights at a vertex are not the same for all paths passing this vertex but depend on coming and leaving edges. The flow increasing path is a directed path in the residual network through from the source point a to the sink point z in such a way that we can send positive flow from point a to point z. To figure out the flow increasing path, we apply the depth-first search algorithm in the residual network on the extended network. After each time of regulating in the flow increment, its value increases by at least 1 unit. Since the flow increment is limited, the algorithm terminates after a finite number of computation steps. The purpose of proposing and creating an extended network model is to apply more accurate and effective modeling of real-world matters from the depth-first search algorithm in the residual network. The idea of the depth-first search algorithm in the residual network is developed and creates a new increasing flow path to find max-flow on the extended network which is different from the breadth-first search algorithm to find max-flow on the extended network. The main contribution of this paper is the augmenting-path maxflow algorithm and the Maxflow -Mincut theorem on extended networks.
Depth-first search, extended network, residual network, max-flow, algorithm.