We consider the problem of selecting a subset of p investments of maximum total return out of a set of n available investments with uncertain returns, where uncertainty is represented by interval estimates for the ret...
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We consider the problem of selecting a subset of p investments of maximum total return out of a set of n available investments with uncertain returns, where uncertainty is represented by interval estimates for the returns, and the minmax regret objective is used. We develop an algorithm that solves this problem in O(min{p,n-p}n) time. This improves the previously known complexity O(min{p,n-p}(2)n).
In this paper, we exhibit connections between the following subjects: Tree packing in graphs and digraphs (both behave completely different), the rigidity matroid of a graph, Henneberg moves on trees, the conjectures ...
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In this paper, we exhibit connections between the following subjects: Tree packing in graphs and digraphs (both behave completely different), the rigidity matroid of a graph, Henneberg moves on trees, the conjectures of Thomassen and Matthews and Sumner, and (s,t)-orderings of digraphs. We do this by studying graphs which admit acyclic orientations that contain an out-branching and in-branching which are arc-disjoint (such an orientation is calledgood). A2T-graphis a graph whose edge set can be decomposed into two edge-disjoint spanning trees. It is a well-known result due to Tutte and Nash-Williams, respectively, that every 4-edge-connected graph contains a spanning 2T-graph. Vertex-minimal 2T-graphs with at least two vertices which are known asgeneric circuitsplay an important role in rigidity theory for graphs. We prove that every generic circuit has a good orientation. Using this result we prove that ifGis 2T-graph whose vertex set has a partitionV1,V2, horizontal ellipsis ,Vkso that eachViinduces a generic circuitGiofGand the set of edges between differentGi's form a matching inG, thenGhas a good orientation. We also obtain a characterization for the case when the set of edges between differentGi's form adouble tree, that is, if we contract eachGito one vertex, and delete parallel edges we obtain a tree. All our proofs are constructive and imply polynomial algorithms for finding the desired good orderings and the pairs of arc-disjoint branchings which certify that the orderings are good. We identify a structure which can be used to certify that a given 2T-graph does not have a good orientation.
Polar graphs are a common generalization of bipartite, cobipartite, and split graphs. They are defined by the existence of a certain partition of vertices, which is NP-complete to decide for general graphs. It has bee...
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Polar graphs are a common generalization of bipartite, cobipartite, and split graphs. They are defined by the existence of a certain partition of vertices, which is NP-complete to decide for general graphs. It has been recently proved that for cographs, the existence of such a partition can be characterized by finitely many forbidden subgraphs, and hence tested in polynomial time. In this paper we address the question of polarity of chordal graphs, arguing that this is in essence a question of colourability, and hence chordal graphs are a natural restriction. We observe that there is no finite forbidden subgraph characterization of polarity in chordal graphs: nevertheless we present a polynomial time algorithm for polarity of chordal graphs. We focus oil a special case of polarity (called monopolarity) which turns Out to be the central concept for our algorithms. For the case of monopolar graphs, we illustrate the structure of all minimal obstructions;it turns out that they can all be described by it certain graph grammar, permitting our monopolarity algorithm to be cast as a certifying algorithm. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The perturbation bounds for the global robustness of max-plus linear systems are constructed, which guarantee that parameter perturbations within such bounds do not affect the original states and outputs. The eigenele...
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The perturbation bounds for the global robustness of max-plus linear systems are constructed, which guarantee that parameter perturbations within such bounds do not affect the original states and outputs. The eigenelement of a max-plus matrix is introduced to characterize the variable elements and to determine the maximal number of variable elements. The relatively maximal perturbation bound is proposed to describe the maximal variation range of system parameters. A polynomial algorithm is developed to find a relatively maximal perturbation bounds. The globally robust approach presented is applied in scheduling of container quay cranes to delimit the maximal traveling time delay.
We consider parallel-machine job scheduling problems with precedence constraints. Job processing times are variable and depend on positions of jobs in a schedule. The objective is to minimize the maximum completion ti...
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We consider parallel-machine job scheduling problems with precedence constraints. Job processing times are variable and depend on positions of jobs in a schedule. The objective is to minimize the maximum completion time or the total weighted completion time. We specify certain conditions under which the problem can be solved by scheduling algorithms applied earlier for fixed job processing times.
An implicit linear description of the stable matching polytope is provided in terms of the blocker and antiblocker sets of constraints of the matroid-kernel polytope. The explicit identification of both these sets is ...
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An implicit linear description of the stable matching polytope is provided in terms of the blocker and antiblocker sets of constraints of the matroid-kernel polytope. The explicit identification of both these sets is based on a partition of the stable pairs in which each agent participates. Here, we expose the relation of such a partition to rotations. We provide a time-optimal algorithm for obtaining such a partition and establish some new related results;most importantly, that this partition is unique. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We provide a complexity analysis of the problem of optimal routing of a server on a transportation network in the presence of a competing server. The server that reaches a node first gets the profit from the node. The...
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We provide a complexity analysis of the problem of optimal routing of a server on a transportation network in the presence of a competing server. The server that reaches a node first gets the profit from the node. The objective is to maximize the worst-case profit. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The well-known spanning tree packing theorem of Nash-Williams and Tutte characterizes graphs with k edge-disjoint spanning trees. Edmonds generalizes this theorem to matroids with k disjoint bases. For any graph G tha...
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The well-known spanning tree packing theorem of Nash-Williams and Tutte characterizes graphs with k edge-disjoint spanning trees. Edmonds generalizes this theorem to matroids with k disjoint bases. For any graph G that may not have k-edge-disjoint spanning trees, the problem of determining what edges should be added to G so that the resulting graph has k edge-disjoint spanning trees has been studied by Haas (2002) [11] and Liu et al. (2009) [17], among others. This paper aims to determine, for a matroid M that has k disjoint bases, the set E-k(M) of elements in M such that for any e is an element of E-k(M), M-e also has k disjoint bases. Using the matroid strength defined by Catlin et al. (1992) [4], we present a characterization of E-k(M) in terms of the strength of M. Consequently, this yields a characterization of edge sets E-k(G) in a graph G with at least k edge-disjoint spanning trees such that for all e is an element of E-k(G), G-e also has k edge-disjoint spanning trees. polynomial algorithms are also discussed for identifying the set E-k(M) in a matroid M, or the edge subset E-k(G) for a connected graph G. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier B.V.
The problem of finding an optimal location of the vertices of a tree network in an assembly space representing a finite set is considered. The optimality criterion is the minimum total cost of location and communicati...
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The problem of finding an optimal location of the vertices of a tree network in an assembly space representing a finite set is considered. The optimality criterion is the minimum total cost of location and communications in all points of this space. Different vertices of the tree can be located in a single point of the assembly space. This problem is well-known as the Weber problem. The representation of the Weber problem as a linear programming problem is given. It is proved that the set of all optimal solutions to the corresponding relaxed Weber problem for the tree network contains an integer solution. This fact can be used to improve the efficiency of algorithms for the problems differing from the Weber problem by the presence of additional constraints: it allows us to find the optimal value of the objective function, which in turn significantly reduces the complexity of calculating the optimal solution itself, e.g., by the branch-and-bound method.
For interior-point algorithms in linear programming,it is well known that the selection of the centering parameter is crucial for proving polynomiality in theory and for efficiency in ***,the selection of the centerin...
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For interior-point algorithms in linear programming,it is well known that the selection of the centering parameter is crucial for proving polynomiality in theory and for efficiency in ***,the selection of the centering parameter is usually by heuristics and separated from the selection of the line-search step *** heuristics are quite different while developing practically efficient algorithms,such as Mehrotra’s predictor–corrector(MPC)algorithm,and theoretically efficient algorithms,such as short-step path-following *** introduces a dilemma that some algorithms with the best-known polynomial bound are least efficient in practice,and some most efficient algorithms may not be convergent in polynomial ***,in this paper,we propose a systematic way to optimally select the centering parameter and linesearch step size at the same time,and we show that the algorithm based on this strategy has the best-known polynomial bound and may be very efficient in computation for real problems.
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