A graph H is a square root of a graph G if G can be obtained from H by adding an edge between any two vertices in H that are of distance 2. The SQUARE ROOT problem is that of deciding whether a given graph admits a sq...
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A graph H is a square root of a graph G if G can be obtained from H by adding an edge between any two vertices in H that are of distance 2. The SQUARE ROOT problem is that of deciding whether a given graph admits a square root. This problem is known to be NP-complete for chordal graphs and polynomial-time solvable for non-trivial minor-closed graph classes and a very limited number of other graph classes. We prove that SQUARE ROOT is O(n)-time solvable for graphs of maximum degree 5 and O(n(4))-time solvable for graphs of maximum degree at most 6. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A digraph is eulerian if it is connected and every vertex has its in-degree equal to its out-degree. Having a spanning eulerian subdigraph is thus a weakening of having a hamiltonian cycle. In this paper, we first cha...
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A digraph is eulerian if it is connected and every vertex has its in-degree equal to its out-degree. Having a spanning eulerian subdigraph is thus a weakening of having a hamiltonian cycle. In this paper, we first characterize the pairs (D,a) $(D,a)$ of a semicomplete digraph D $D$ and an arc a $a$ such that D $D$ has a spanning eulerian subdigraph containing a $a$. In particular, we show that if D $D$ is 2-arc-strong, then every arc is contained in a spanning eulerian subdigraph. We then characterize the pairs ( D , a ) $(D,a)$ of a semicomplete digraph D $D$ and an arc a $a$ such that D $D$ has a spanning eulerian subdigraph avoiding a $a$. In particular, we prove that every 2-arc-strong semicomplete digraph has a spanning eulerian subdigraph avoiding any prescribed arc. We also prove the existence of a (minimum) function f ( k ) $f(k)$ such that every f ( k ) $f(k)$-arc-strong semicomplete digraph contains a spanning eulerian subdigraph avoiding any prescribed set of k $k$ arcs. We conjecture that f ( k ) = k + 1 $f(k)=k+1$ and establish this conjecture for k <= 3 $k\le 3$ and when the k $k$ arcs that we delete form a forest of stars. A digraph D $D$ is eulerian-connected if for any two distinct vertices x , y $x,y$, the digraph D $D$ has a spanning ( x , y ) $(x,y)$-trail. We prove that every 2-arc-strong semicomplete digraph is eulerian-connected. All our results may be seen as arc analogues of well-known results on hamiltonian paths and cycles in semicomplete digraphs.
We study the deterministic single-item lot sizing problem with batch ordering under the buyback contract (LSPBB) in a system with one retailer and one supplier. We consider a fixed cost per batch replenished in additi...
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We study the deterministic single-item lot sizing problem with batch ordering under the buyback contract (LSPBB) in a system with one retailer and one supplier. We consider a fixed cost per batch replenished in addition to the classical lot sizing costs, making the procurement cost structure stepwise. We also consider lost sales option with a lost sales cost incurred for each unit of demand not satisfied. The buyback contract considered here consists in returning unused units at the end of every w periods, with a buyback revenue for each unit returned back. We study this problem under both Fn. (full truck load) cost structure and only full batch replenishment assumption. We propose efficient and exact polynomial time algorithms for different extensions of this problem which is known to be NP-hard in the general case. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time that the buyback contract is introduced in a multi-period lot sizing problem (LSP) in the literature. Moreover, batch ordering and lost sales issues have never been tackled in the same LSP model before our study. Hence, this paper provides efficient algorithms to solve the LSP with batch ordering and lost sales under the buyback contract not yet addressed in the literature.
Corrupted data appears widely in many contemporary applications including voting behavior, high-throughput sequencing and sensor networks. In this article, we consider the sparse modeling via L-0-regularization under ...
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Corrupted data appears widely in many contemporary applications including voting behavior, high-throughput sequencing and sensor networks. In this article, we consider the sparse modeling via L-0-regularization under the framework of high-dimensional measurement error models. By utilizing the techniques of the nearest positive semi-definite matrix projection, the resulting regularization problem can be efficiently solved through a polynomial algorithm. Under some interpretable conditions, we prove that the proposed estimator can enjoy comprehensive statistical properties including the model selection consistency and the oracle inequalities. In particular, the nonoptimality of the logarithmic factor of dimensionality will be showed in the oracle inequalities. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method by simulation studies.
In this paper we consider how to increase the capacities of the elements in a set E efficiently so that the capacity of a given family F of subsets of E can be increased to the maximum extent while the total cost for ...
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In this paper we consider how to increase the capacities of the elements in a set E efficiently so that the capacity of a given family F of subsets of E can be increased to the maximum extent while the total cost for the increment of capacity is within a given budget bound. We transform this problem into finding the minimum weight element of F when the weight of each element of E is a linear function of a single parameter and propose an algorithm for solving this problem. We further discuss the problem for some special cases. Especially, when E is the edge set of a network and the family F consists of all spanning trees, we give a strongly polynomial algorithm.
The authors state that various domination problems are polynomial time solvable in convex bipartite graphs, and we give the main ideas of the algorithms. Total Dominating Set is polynomial even for chordal bipartite g...
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The authors state that various domination problems are polynomial time solvable in convex bipartite graphs, and we give the main ideas of the algorithms. Total Dominating Set is polynomial even for chordal bipartite graphs. Further, it is shown by a reduction from 3SAT that Independent Dominating Set remain NP-complete when restricted to chordal bipartite graphs.
Non-linear integer programming (NIP) is a NP-complete problem with extensive theoretical and practical backgrounds. Based on our proposed Darwin and Boltzmann mixed strategy, this paper presents a general stochastic i...
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Non-linear integer programming (NIP) is a NP-complete problem with extensive theoretical and practical backgrounds. Based on our proposed Darwin and Boltzmann mixed strategy, this paper presents a general stochastic iterative algorithm for the NIP problems. The algorithm synthesizes the advantages of the Darwin strategy and the Boltzmann annealing strategy. It converges asymptotically to the global optimums and has shown to be polynomial in complexity. The experimental evaluations also show that the proposed algorithm is more efficient than the simulated annealing algorithm. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.
Consider a finite setE, a weight functionw:E→R, and two matroidsM 1 andM 2 defined onE. The weighted matroid intersection problem consists of finding a setI⊆E, independen...
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Consider a finite setE, a weight functionw:E→R, and two matroidsM
1 andM
2 defined onE. The weighted matroid intersection problem consists of finding a setI⊆E, independent in both matroids, that maximizes Σ{w(e):e inI}. We present an algorithm of complexity O(nr(r+c+logn)) for this problem, wheren=|E|,r=min(rank(M
1), rank (M
2)),c=max (c
1,c
2) and, fori=1,2,c
i
is the complexity of finding the circuit ofI∪{e} inM
i
(or show that none exists) wheree is inE andI⊆E is independent inM
1 andM
2. A related problem is to find a maximum weight set, independent in both matroids, and of given cardinalityk (if one exists). Our algorithm also solves this problem. In addition, we present a second algorithm that, given a feasible solution of cardinalityk, finds an optimal one of the same cardinality. A sensitivity analysis on the weights is easy to perform using this approach. Our two algorithms are related to existing algorithms. In fact, our framework provides new simple proofs of their validity. Other contributions of this paper are the existence of nonnegative reduced weights (Theorem 6), allowing the improved complexity bound, and the introduction of artificial elements, allowing an improved start and flexibility in the implementation of the algorithms.
We consider the problem (minimum spanning strong subdigraph (MSSS)) of finding the minimum number of arcs in a spanning strongly connected subdigraph of a strongly connected digraph. This problem is NP-hard for genera...
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We consider the problem (minimum spanning strong subdigraph (MSSS)) of finding the minimum number of arcs in a spanning strongly connected subdigraph of a strongly connected digraph. This problem is NP-hard for general digraphs since it generalizes the Hamiltonian cycle problem. We characterize the number of arcs in a minimum spanning strong subdigraph for digraphs which are either extended semicomplete or semicomplete bipartite. Our proofs lead to polynomial algorithms for finding an optimal subdigraph for every digraph from each of these classes. Our proofs are based on a number of results (some of which are new and interesting in their own right) on the structure of cycles and paths in these graphs. Recently, it was shown that the Hamiltonian cycle problem is polynomially solvable for semicomplete multipartite digraphs, a superclass of the two classes above [15]. We conjecture that the MSSS problem is also polynomial for this class of digraphs. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
It is well known that the problem of deciding whether a given digraph has a k-cycle factor for some constant k (i.e. a collection of k disjoint cycles that cover all vertices of the digraph) is N P-complete as this is...
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It is well known that the problem of deciding whether a given digraph has a k-cycle factor for some constant k (i.e. a collection of k disjoint cycles that cover all vertices of the digraph) is N P-complete as this is a generalization of the Hamilton cycle problem. In this paper, we show that for the class of locally semicomplete digraphs the existence of a 2-cycle factor can be decided, and a 2-cycle factor found if it exists, in time O(n(3)), where n is the order of the digraph. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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