Connections in networks: a hybrid approach

  • Authors:
  • Carla P. Gomes;Willem-Jan Van Hoeve;Ashish Sabharwal

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY;Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  • Venue:
  • CPAIOR'08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Integration of AI and OR techniques in constraint programming for combinatorial optimization problems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper extends our previous work by exploring the use of a hybrid solution method for solving the connection subgraph problem. We employ a two phase solution method, which drastically reduces the cost of testing for infeasibility and also helps prune the search space for MIP-based optimization. Overall, this provides a much more scalable solution than simply optimizing a MIP model of the problem with Cplex. We report results for semi-structured lattice instances as well as on real data used for the construction of a wildlife corridor for grizzly bears in the Northern Rockies region.