C Program to Perform Optimal Parenthesize using Dynamic Programming

This is a C Program to perform optimal paranthesization using DP. This program determines the order in which the chain of matrices should be multiplied.

Here is source code of the C Program to Perform Optimal Paranthesization Using Dynamic Programming. The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

/* A naive recursive implementation that simply follows the above optimal

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 substructure property */
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#include<stdio.h>
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#include<limits.h>
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int MatrixChainOrder(int p[], int n) {
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    /* For simplicity of the program, one extra row and one extra column are

     allocated in m[][].  0th row and 0th column of m[][] are not used */

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    int m[n][n];
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    int s[n][n];
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    int i, j, k, L, q;
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    /* m[i,j] = Minimum number of scalar multiplications needed to compute

     the matrix A[i]A[i+1]...A[j] = A[i..j] where dimention of A[i] is

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     p[i-1] x p[i] */
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    // cost is zero when multiplying one matrix.

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    for (i = 1; i < n; i++)
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        m[i][i] = 0;
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    // L is chain length.
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    for (L = 2; L < n; L++) {
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        for (i = 1; i <= n - L + 1; i++) {

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            j = i + L - 1;
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            m[i][j] = INT_MAX;
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            for (k = i; k <= j - 1; k++) {

                // q = cost/scalar multiplications

                q = m[i][k] + m[k + 1][j] + p[i - 1] * p[k] * p[j];

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                if (q < m[i][j]) {
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                    m[i][j] = q;
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                    s[i][j] = k;
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                }
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            }
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        }
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    }
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    return m[1][n - 1];
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}
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int main() {
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    printf(
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            "Enter the array p[], which represents the chain of matrices such that the ith matrix Ai is of dimension p[i-1] x p[i]");

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    printf("Enter the total length:");
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    int n;
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    scanf("%d", &n);
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    int array[n];
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    printf("Enter the dimensions: ");
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    int var;
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    for (var = 0; var < n; ++var) {
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        scanf("%d", array[var]);
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    }
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    printf("Minimum number of multiplications is: %d",

            MatrixChainOrder(array, n));

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    return 0;
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}
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Output:

$ gcc OptimalParanthesization.cpp
$ ./a.out
 
Enter the array p[], which represents the chain of matrices such that the ith matrix Ai is of dimension p[i-1] x p[i]Enter the total length:4
Enter the dimensions: 2 4 3 5
Minimum number of multiplications is: 54

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