Practical Performance of Eecient Minimum Cut Algorithms

In the late eighties and early nineties, three major exciting new developments (and some rami cations) in the computation of minimum capacity cuts occurred and these developments motivated us to evaluate the old and new methods experimentally. We provide a brief overview of the most important algorithms for the minimum capacity cut problem and compare these methods both on problem instances from the literature and on problem instances originating from the solution of the traveling salesman problem by branch-andcut.