We study both the continuous and discrete problems of maximizing the product of two linear functions subject to all variables being between, 0 and 1. We first give linear and low-order polynomial algorithms for the so...
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We study both the continuous and discrete problems of maximizing the product of two linear functions subject to all variables being between, 0 and 1. We first give linear and low-order polynomial algorithms for the solution of the continuous problem. In addition, we describe penalties that help to fix variables in the discrete problem. Extensive computational tests demonstrate the effectiveness of these results.
Interval graphs admit linear-time recognition algorithms and have several elegant forbidden structure characterizations. Interval digraphs can also be recognized in polynomial time, and they admit a characterization i...
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Interval graphs admit linear-time recognition algorithms and have several elegant forbidden structure characterizations. Interval digraphs can also be recognized in polynomial time, and they admit a characterization in terms of incidence matrices. Nevertheless, they do not have a known forbidden structure characterization or low-degree polynomial-time recognition algorithm. We introduce a new class of 'adjusted interval digraphs'. By contrast, for these digraphs we exhibit a natural forbidden structure characterization, in terms of a novel structure which we call an 'invertible pair'. Our characterization also yields a low-degree polynomial-time recognition algorithm of adjusted interval digraphs. It turns out that invertible pairs are also useful for undirected interval graphs, and our result yields a new forbidden structure characterization of interval graphs. In fact, it can be shown to be a natural link proving the equivalence of some known characterizations of interval graphs the theorems of Lekkerkerker and Boland, and of Fulkerson and Gross. In addition, adjusted interval digraphs naturally arise in the context of list homomorphism problems. If H is a reflexive undirected graph, the list homomorphism problem LHOM(H) is polynomial if H is an interval graph, and NP-complete otherwise. If H is a reflexive digraph, LHOM(H) is polynomial if H is an adjusted interval graph, and we conjecture that it is also NP-complete otherwise. We show that our results imply the conjecture in two important cases. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The problem of optimizing weighting functions over all the k-subtrees (subtrees with k vertices) of a given tree is considered. A general algorithm is presented that finds an optimal k-subtree of a given tree whenever...
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The problem of optimizing weighting functions over all the k-subtrees (subtrees with k vertices) of a given tree is considered. A general algorithm is presented that finds an optimal k-subtree of a given tree whenever the weighting function is what we call monotonic. Monotonicity is a very natural property, satisfied by most of the functions that one can think of.
The root-squaring iterations of Dandelin (1826), Lobachevsky (1834), and Graffe (1837) recursively produce the coefficients of polynomials ph(x) whose zeros are the 2(h)th powers of the zeros of an input polynomial p(...
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(数字)9783031417245
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(纸本)9783031417238;9783031417245
The root-squaring iterations of Dandelin (1826), Lobachevsky (1834), and Graffe (1837) recursively produce the coefficients of polynomials ph(x) whose zeros are the 2(h)th powers of the zeros of an input polynomial p(x) for h = 1, 2, 3,... The iterations have been the main tool for univariate polynomial root-finding in the 19th century and well beyond but became obsolete later because of severe numerical stability problems observed already in a few iterations. To circumvent this deficiency we apply root-squaring to Newton's Inverse Ratios p'(x)/p(x) and compute no coefficients of p(x) or ph(x) for h > 0, assuming that p(x) is a black box polynomial, represented by an oracle or subroutine for its evaluation rather than by its coefficients. Accordingly, our algorithm accelerates root-squaring for a polynomial p(x) that can be evaluated fast as well as for polynomial t(c,rho)(x) = p(x-c/rho) for a complex number c and a positive rho by performing root-squaring without computing the coefficients of t(c,rho)(x). Our extensive experiments demonstrate efficiency of application of our algorithms to estimation of extremal root radii, that is, the maximal and minimal distances from a point on the complex plane to the zeros of p(x). This is a well-known ingredient of various efficient polynomial root-finders, immediately extended to deciding whether a fixed disc on the complex plane contains any zero of p(x). The latter decision, called exclusion test for a disc, is the basic step of all efficient root-finders using subdivision iterations, in particular, of the recent polynomial root-finder by the second author, made nearly optimal due to a distinct application of root-squaring iterations.
The publication of Karmarkar's paper has resulted in intense research activity into Interior Point Methods (IPMs) for linear programming. Degeneracy is present in most real-life problems and has always been an imp...
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This paper is devoted to a knapsack problem with a cardinality constraint when dropping the assumption of additive representability [10]. More precisely, we assume that we only have a classification of the items into ...
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(纸本)9783642248726
This paper is devoted to a knapsack problem with a cardinality constraint when dropping the assumption of additive representability [10]. More precisely, we assume that we only have a classification of the items into ordered classes. We aim at generating the set of preferred subsets of items, according to a pairwise dominance relation between subsets that naturally extends the ordering relation over classes [4,16]. We first show that the problem reduces to a multiobjective knapsack problem with cardinality constraint. We then propose two polynomial algorithms to solve it, one based on a multiobjective dynamic programming scheme and the other on a multiobjective branch and bound procedure. We conclude by providing numerical tests to compare both approaches.
Interval graphs admit linear-time recognition algorithms and have several elegant forbidden structure characterizations. Interval digraphs can also be recognized in polynomial time, and they admit a characterization i...
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Interval graphs admit linear-time recognition algorithms and have several elegant forbidden structure characterizations. Interval digraphs can also be recognized in polynomial time, and they admit a characterization in terms of incidence matrices. Nevertheless, they do not have a known forbidden structure characterization or low-degree polynomial-time recognition algorithm. We introduce a new class of 'adjusted interval digraphs'. By contrast, for these digraphs we exhibit a natural forbidden structure characterization, in terms of a novel structure which we call an 'invertible pair'. Our characterization also yields a low-degree polynomial-time recognition algorithm of adjusted interval digraphs. It turns out that invertible pairs are also useful for undirected interval graphs, and our result yields a new forbidden structure characterization of interval graphs. In fact, it can be shown to be a natural link proving the equivalence of some known characterizations of interval graphs the theorems of Lekkerkerker and Boland, and of Fulkerson and Gross. In addition, adjusted interval digraphs naturally arise in the context of list homomorphism problems. If H is a reflexive undirected graph, the list homomorphism problem LHOM(H) is polynomial if H is an interval graph, and NP-complete otherwise. If H is a reflexive digraph, LHOM(H) is polynomial if H is an adjusted interval graph, and we conjecture that it is also NP-complete otherwise. We show that our results imply the conjecture in two important cases. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The basic scheduling problem we are dealing with is the following. There are n jobs, each requiring an identical execution time. All jobs have to be processed on a set of parallel machines. Preemptions can be either a...
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The basic scheduling problem we are dealing with is the following. There are n jobs, each requiring an identical execution time. All jobs have to be processed on a set of parallel machines. Preemptions can be either allowed or forbidden. The aim is to construct a feasible schedule such that a given criterion is minimized. In this paper, we survey existing approaches for the problem class considered.
A NP-hard problem (P) of mixed-discrete linear programming is considered which consists in the minimization of a linear objective function subject to a special nonconnected subset of an unbounded polymatroid. For this...
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We consider the weighted p-center problem on a transportation network with uncertain weights of nodes. Specifically, for each node, an interval estimate of its weight is known. The objective is to find the 'minima...
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We consider the weighted p-center problem on a transportation network with uncertain weights of nodes. Specifically, for each node, an interval estimate of its weight is known. The objective is to find the 'minimax regret' solution, i.e. to minimize the worst-case loss in the objective function that may occur because a decision is made without knowing which state of nature will take place. We discuss properties of the problem and show that the problem can be solved by means of solving (n+1) regular weighted p-center problems. This leads to polynomial algorithms for the cases where the regular weighted p-center problem can be solved in polynomial time, e.g. for the case of a tree network, and for the case of a general network with p=1.
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