Color refinement is a classical technique used to show that two given graphs G and H are non-isomorphic;it is very efficient, although it does not succeed on all graphs. We call a graph G amenable to color refinement ...
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Color refinement is a classical technique used to show that two given graphs G and H are non-isomorphic;it is very efficient, although it does not succeed on all graphs. We call a graph G amenable to color refinement if the color refinement procedure succeeds in distinguishing G from any non-isomorphic graph H. Babai et al. (SIAM J Comput 9(3):628-635, 1980) have shown that random graphs are amenable with high probability. We determine the exact range of applicability of color refinement by showing that amenable graphs are recognizable in time , where n and m denote the number of vertices and the number of edges in the input graph. We use our characterization of amenable graphs to analyze the approach to Graph Isomorphism based on the notion of compact graphs. A graph is called compact if the polytope of its fractional automorphisms is integral. Tinhofer (Discrete Appl Math 30(2-3):253-264, 1991) noted that isomorphism testing for compact graphs can be done quite efficiently by linearprogramming. However, the problem of characterizing compact graphs and recognizing them in polynomial time remains an open question. Our results in this direction are summarized below: We show that all amenable graphs are compact. In other words, the applicability range for Tinhofer's linearprogramming approach to isomorphism testing is at least as large as for the combinatorial approach based on color refinement. Exploring the relationship between color refinement and compactness further, we study related combinatorial and algebraic graph properties introduced by Tinhofer and Godsil. We show that the corresponding classes of graphs form a hierarchy, and we prove that recognizing each of these graph classes is P-hard. In particular, this gives a first complexity lower bound for recognizing compact graphs.
In this paper the solution of two-stage guillotine cutting stock problems is considered. Especially such problems are under investigation where the sizes of the order demands differ in a large range. We propose a new ...
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In this paper the solution of two-stage guillotine cutting stock problems is considered. Especially such problems are under investigation where the sizes of the order demands differ in a large range. We propose a new approach dealing with such situations and compare it with the classical Gilmore-Gomory approach. We report results of extensive numerical experiments which show the advantages of the new approach.
We analyze probabilistically the classical Held-Karp lower bound derived from the 1-tree relaxation for the Euclidean traveling salesman problem (ETSP). We prove that, if n points are identically and independently dis...
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We analyze probabilistically the classical Held-Karp lower bound derived from the 1-tree relaxation for the Euclidean traveling salesman problem (ETSP). We prove that, if n points are identically and independently distributed according to a distribution with bounded support and absolutely continuous part f(x) dx over the d-cube, the Held-Karp lower bound on these n points is almost surely asymptotic to beta-HK(d)n(d-1)/d integral f(x)(d-1)/d dx, where beta-HK(d) is a constant independent of n. The result suggests a probabilistic explanation of the observation that the lower bound is very close to the length of the optimal tour in practice, since the ETSP is almost surely asymptotic to beta-TSP(d)n(d-1)/d integral f(x)(d-1)/d dx. The techniques we use exploit the polyhedral description of the Held-Karp lower bound and the theory of subadditive Euclidean functionals.
The (axis-parallel) stabbing number of a given set of line segments is the maximum number of segments that can be intersected by any one (axis-parallel) line. This paper deals with finding perfect matchings, spanning ...
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The (axis-parallel) stabbing number of a given set of line segments is the maximum number of segments that can be intersected by any one (axis-parallel) line. This paper deals with finding perfect matchings, spanning trees, or triangulations of minimum stabbing number for a given set of vertices. The complexity of finding a spanning tree of minimum stabbing number is one of the original 30 questions on "The Open Problems Project" list of outstanding problems in computational geometry by Demaine, Mitchell, and O'Rourke. We show NP-hardness of stabbing problems by means of a general proof technique. For matchings, this also implies a nontrivial lower bound on the approximability. On the positive side, we propose a cut-based integer programming formulation for minimizing the stabbing number of matchings and spanning trees. From the corresponding linear programming relaxation we obtain polynomial-time lower bounds and show that there always is an optimal fractional solution that contains an edge of at least constant weight. We conjecture that the resulting iterated rounding scheme constitutes a constant-factor approximation algorithm.
The domination number gamma(G) of a graph G, its exponential domination number gamma e (G), and its porous exponential domination number gamma(*)(e)(G) satisfy gamma(e)*(G) <= gamma(e)(G) <= gamma(G). We contrib...
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The domination number gamma(G) of a graph G, its exponential domination number gamma e (G), and its porous exponential domination number gamma(*)(e)(G) satisfy gamma(e)*(G) <= gamma(e)(G) <= gamma(G). We contribute results about the gaps in these inequalities as well as the graphs for which some of the inequalities hold with equality. Relaxing the natural integer linear program whose optimum value is gamma(e)*(G), we are led to the definition of the fractional porous exponential domination number gamma e* f (G) of a graph G. For a subcubic tree T of order n, we show gamma(e,f)*(T) = n+2/6 and gamma e (T) <= 2 gamma(e,f)*(T). We characterize the two classes of subcubic trees T with gamma(e) (T) =gamma(e,f)* (T) and gamma(T) = gamma(e)(T), respectively. Using linearprogramming arguments, we establish several lower bounds on the fractional porous exponential domination number in more general settings. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We propose techniques for the solution of the LP relaxation and the Lagrangean dual in combinatorial optimization and nonlinearprogramming problems. Our techniques find the optimal solution value and the optimal dual...
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We propose techniques for the solution of the LP relaxation and the Lagrangean dual in combinatorial optimization and nonlinearprogramming problems. Our techniques find the optimal solution value and the optimal dual multipliers of the LP relaxation and the Lagrangean dual in polynomial time using as a subroutine either the Ellipsoid algorithm or the recent algorithm of Vaidya. Moreover, in problems of a certain structure our techniques find not only the optimal solution value, but the solution as well. Our techniques lead to significant improvements in the theoretical running time compared with previously known methods (interior point methods, Ellipsoid algorithm, Vaidya's algorithm). We use our method to the solution of the LP relaxation and the Langrangean dual of several classical combinatorial problems, like the traveling salesman problem, the vehicle routing problem, the Steiner tree problem, the k-connected problem, multicommodity flows, network design problems, network flow problems with side constraints, facility location problems, K-polymatroid intersection, multiple item capacitated lot sizing problem, and stochastic programming. In all these problems our techniques significantly improve the theoretical running time and yield the fastest way to solve them.
A unified approach and a summary of the most important results concerned with exact methods for solving the (binary) knapsack problem and its generalizations are given. We stress the importance of dual methods for sol...
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A unified approach and a summary of the most important results concerned with exact methods for solving the (binary) knapsack problem and its generalizations are given. We stress the importance of dual methods for solving linear programming relaxations of the considered problems. Two ways of generalization of the knapsack problem are described. If the special ordered sets are added, then the multiple-choice knapsack problem is obtained. If the constraints have the nested structure, then we get the nested knapsack problem. Also the multiple-choice nested knapsack problem is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
A class of generalized greedy algorithms is proposed for the solution of the {0, 1} multi-knapsack problem. Items are selected according to decreasing ratios of their profit and a weighted sum of their requirement coe...
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A class of generalized greedy algorithms is proposed for the solution of the {0, 1} multi-knapsack problem. Items are selected according to decreasing ratios of their profit and a weighted sum of their requirement coefficients. The solution obtained depends on the choice of the weights. A geometrical representation of the method is given and the relation to the dual of the linear programming relaxation of multi-knapsack is exploited. We investigate the complexity of computing a set of weights that gives the maximum greedy solution value. Finally, the heuristics are subjected to both a worst-case and a probabilistic performance analysis.
In this paper,we consider the metric uncapacitated facility location game with service installation costs. Our main result is an 11-approximate cross-monotonic cost-sharing method under the assumption that the install...
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In this paper,we consider the metric uncapacitated facility location game with service installation costs. Our main result is an 11-approximate cross-monotonic cost-sharing method under the assumption that the installation cost depends only on the service type.
In this letter, we study the mobile user recruitment problem for mobile crowdsensing systems. Instead of minimizing the overall sensing cost or user utility, this letter aims to optimize the load balancing of the mobi...
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In this letter, we study the mobile user recruitment problem for mobile crowdsensing systems. Instead of minimizing the overall sensing cost or user utility, this letter aims to optimize the load balancing of the mobile users, which is particularly important for the resource-constrained individual user. We refer to such a problem as the load balanced mobile user recruitment (LB-MUR) problem. Specifically, we first formulate the LB-MUR problem as a mixed integer linearprogramming (LP) and prove that it is NP-hard. Then an efficient polynomial-time suboptimal algorithm is proposed, which is based on LP relaxation. Furthermore, we derive the approximation ratio of the proposed algorithm. Finally, we evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme through simulations.
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