Let G be a K-4-minor free graph with maximum degree Delta. We prove that the chromatic number of the square of G is at most (i) Delta + 3 if 2 less than or equal to Delta less than or equal to 3;or (ii) [3Delta/2] + 1...
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Let G be a K-4-minor free graph with maximum degree Delta. We prove that the chromatic number of the square of G is at most (i) Delta + 3 if 2 less than or equal to Delta less than or equal to 3;or (ii) [3Delta/2] + 1 if Delta greater than or equal to 4. Examples are given to show the bounds can be attained. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We extend the classical no-wait two-machine flow shop scheduling problem to the case where job-processing times are controllable through the allocation of a common, limited and nonrenewable resource. Our objective is ...
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We extend the classical no-wait two-machine flow shop scheduling problem to the case where job-processing times are controllable through the allocation of a common, limited and nonrenewable resource. Our objective is to simultaneously determine the sequence of the jobs and the resource allocation for each job on both machines in order to minimize the makespan. By using the equivalent load method to obtain the optimal resource allocation on a series-parallel graph, we reduce the problem to a sequencing one and show that it is equivalent to a new special case of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). We prove that although the reduced problem forms a subclass of the TSP on permuted Monge matrices, it is still strongly NP-hard. We provide an approximation result and present three special cases which are polynomially solvable. We have also tested two different subtour-patching heuristics in large-scale computational experiments on randomly generated instances of the problem. Both heuristics produced close-to-optimal solutions in most cases.
Consider the NP-hard problem of, given a simple graph G, to find a series-parallel subgraph of G with the maximum number of edges. The algorithm that, given a connected graph G, outputs a spanning tree of G, is a 1/2-...
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Consider the NP-hard problem of, given a simple graph G, to find a series-parallel subgraph of G with the maximum number of edges. The algorithm that, given a connected graph G, outputs a spanning tree of G, is a 1/2-approximation. Indeed, if n is the number of vertices in G, any spanning tree in G has n-1 edges and any series-parallel graph on n vertices has at most 2n-3 edges. We present a 7/12 -approximation for this problem and results showing the limits of our approach.
graph G is called cyclically orientable (CO) if it admits an orientation in which every simple chordless cycle is cyclically oriented. This family of graphs was introduced by Barot et al. [Cluster algebras of finite t...
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graph G is called cyclically orientable (CO) if it admits an orientation in which every simple chordless cycle is cyclically oriented. This family of graphs was introduced by Barot et al. [Cluster algebras of finite type and positive symmetrizable matrices, J. London Math. Soc. (3) 73 (2006) 545-564]. The authors obtained several nice characterizations of CO-graphs, being motivated primarily by their applications in cluster algebras. Here we obtain several new characterizations that provide algorithms for recognizing CO-graphs and obtaining their cyclic orientations in linear time. We show that the edge maximal CO-graphs are 2-trees;that is, G = (V, E) is a 2-tree if and only if G is CO and G' = (V, E') is not CO whenever E is a proper subset of E'. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Refining a bound by Lih, Wang and Zhu, we prove that if the square G(2) of a K-4-minor-free graph G with maximum degree Delta >= 6 does not contain a complete subgraph on [3/2 Delta] + 1 vertices, then G(2) is [3/2...
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Refining a bound by Lih, Wang and Zhu, we prove that if the square G(2) of a K-4-minor-free graph G with maximum degree Delta >= 6 does not contain a complete subgraph on [3/2 Delta] + 1 vertices, then G(2) is [3/2 Delta]-colorable. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper deals with the problem of enumerating all the s-t minimal cutsets separating two vertices s and t specified in a class of undirected planar graphs, called D-S (delta-star) reducible graphs. The problem is h...
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This paper deals with the problem of enumerating all the s-t minimal cutsets separating two vertices s and t specified in a class of undirected planar graphs, called D-S (delta-star) reducible graphs. The problem is handled by a new enumeration approach based on graph reductions that preserve minimal cutsets such that a graph with complex structure is transformed into a single edge connecting s and t by recursive applications of the mixture of series, parallel, and delta-to-star reductions. Some classes of undirected planar graphs, such as series-parallel and wheel graphs, are identified to be D-S reducible. The approach is provided with a polynomial-time (measured in total number of vertices) enumeration algorithm which is illustrated with a numerical example. The efficiency is shown through some computational experience.
This paper deals with the Extended Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (ERCPSP) which is defined by events, nonrenewable resources and precedence constraints between pairs of events. The availability of a ...
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This paper deals with the Extended Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (ERCPSP) which is defined by events, nonrenewable resources and precedence constraints between pairs of events. The availability of a resource is depleted and replenished at the occurrence times of a set of events. The decision problem of ERCPSP consists of determining whether an instance has a feasible schedule or not. When there is only one nonrenewable resource, this problem is equivalent to find a feasible schedule that minimizes the number of resource units initially required. It generalizes the maximum cumulative cost problem and the two-machine maximum completion time flow-shop problem. In this paper, we consider this problem with some specific precedence constraints: parallel chains, series-parallel and interval order precedence constraints. For the first two cases, polynomial algorithms based on a linear decomposition of chains are proposed. For the third case, a polynomial algorithm is introduced to solve it. The priority between events is defined using the properties of interval orders.
In this paper, we study the minimum spanning tree problem with label selection, that is, the problem of finding a minimum spanning tree of a vertex-labeled graph where the weight of each edge may vary depending on the...
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In this paper, we study the minimum spanning tree problem with label selection, that is, the problem of finding a minimum spanning tree of a vertex-labeled graph where the weight of each edge may vary depending on the selection of labels of vertices at both ends. The problem is especially important as the application to mathematical OCR. It is shown that the problem is NP-hard. However, for the application to mathematical OCR, it is sufficient to deal with only graphs with small tree-width. In this paper, a linear-time algorithm for series-parallel graphs is presented. Since the minimum spanning tree problem with label selection is closely related to the generalized minimum spanning tree problem, their relation is discussed.
The generalized theta graph Theta (S1,....Sk) consists of a pair of endvertices joined by k internally disjoint paths of lengths s(1),..., s(k) greater than or equal to 1. We prove that the roots of the chromatic poly...
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The generalized theta graph Theta (S1,....Sk) consists of a pair of endvertices joined by k internally disjoint paths of lengths s(1),..., s(k) greater than or equal to 1. We prove that the roots of the chromatic polynomial pi(Theta (S1,...,Sk), z) of a k-ary generalized theta graph all lie in the disc \z- 1 \ less than or equal to [1 +o(1)] k/log k, uniformly in the path lengths s(1). Moreover, we prove that Theta (2,...,2) similar or equal to K-2,K-k indeed has a chromatic root of modulus [1 + o(1)] k/log k. Finally, for k less than or equal to 8 we prove that the generalized theta graph with a chromatic root that maximizes \ z - 1 \ is the one with all path lengths equal to 2;we conjecture that this holds for all k. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
Given a set ofn events (or jobs) which are constrained by a precedence relation, we want to order them into a totally ordered sequence (i. e., one machine schedule). Each event has an integer cost (which may be negati...
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Given a set ofn events (or jobs) which are constrained by a precedence relation, we want to order them into a totally ordered sequence (i. e., one machine schedule). Each event has an integer cost (which may be negative) associated with it, and our objective is to minimize the maximum cumulative cost within a schedule, i. e., to obtain a cumulative cost-optimal schedule. We introduce the concept of “strict optimality” and investigate properties of strictly optimal schedules. The usefulness of these schedules is demonstrated in the special case where the precedence relation is “series-parallel”. For this case we describe an algorithm which finds a cumulative cost-optimal schedule inO (n logn) time.
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