Approximating the minimum quadratic assignment problems

  • Authors:
  • Refael Hassin;Asaf Levin;Maxim Sviridenko

  • Affiliations:
  • Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel;The Technion, Haifa, Israel;IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We consider the well-known minimum quadratic assignment problem. In this problem we are given two n × n nonnegative symmetric matrices A = (aij) and B = (bij). The objective is to compute a permutation π of V = {1,…,n} so that ∑ i,j∈Vi≠j aπ(i),π(j)bi,j is minimized. We assume that A is a 0/1 incidence matrix of a graph, and that B satisfies the triangle inequality. We analyze the approximability of this class of problems by providing polynomial bounded approximations for some special cases, and inapproximability results for other cases.