Minimax flow tree problems

نویسندگان

  • Hui Chen
  • Ann Melissa Campbell
  • Barrett W. Thomas
  • Arie Tamir
چکیده

We examine a class of problems which seeks to find tree-structured networks which minimize the maximum cost among a subset of nodes in a graph. The cost metric is characterized by a series of parameters which can represent distance, flow volume, and delivery deadlines. Derived through variations in problem parameters, we present 17 different problems and discuss their worst-case complexity. Fourteen of the problems are new to the literature. We show that some of the problems are NP-complete and others are polynomially solvable.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Networks

دوره 54  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009