@techreport{TR-DCC-92-07, number = {DCC-92-07}, author = {Setubal, João C.}, title = {New Experimental Results For Bipartite Matching}, month = {November}, year = {1992}, institution = {Department of Computer Science, University of Campinas}, note = {In English, 17 pages. \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract} We present experimental results for 3 bipartite matching algorithms on 3 classes of sparse graphs. The push-relabel maximum flow algorithm, specialized for unweighted bipartite graphs, came out as the most robust algorithm, being the fastest by a significant margin in two of the classes and competitive in the other one. The other two algorithms implemented are Hopcroft and Karp's and Alt, Blum, Mehlhorn, and Paul's, and it is noteworthy that both have better worst-case bounds than the push-relabel algorithm. The input classes used are variations of random bipartite graphs. We also show that speed-ups of up to 3.2 with respect to the sequential implementation can be obtained by parallelizing the push-relabel algorithm on a shared-memory multiprocessor using up to 12 processors. } }