A polynomial-time-delay and polynomial-space algorithm for enumeration problems in multi-criteria optimization

  • Authors:
  • Yoshio Okamoto;Takeaki Uno

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Toyohashi University of Technlology, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan;National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC'07 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Algorithms and computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We propose a polynomial-time-delay polynomial-space algorithm to enumerate all efficient extreme solutions of a multicriteria minimum-cost spanning tree problem, while only the bi-criteria case was studied in the literature. The algorithm is based on the reverse search framework due to Avis & Fukuda. We also show that the same technique can be applied to the multi-criteria version of the minimum-cost basis problem in a (possibly degenerated) submodular system. As an ultimate generalization, we propose an algorithm to enumerate all efficient extreme solutions of a multi-criteria linear program. When the given linear program has no degeneracy, the algorithm runs in polynomial-time delay and polynomial space. To best of our knowledge, they are the first polynomialtime delay and polynomial-space algorithms for the problems.