Deterministic risk control for cost-effective network connections

  • Authors:
  • Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda;Xujin Chen;Jie Hu;Xiaodong Hu;Alfredo Candia-Véjar

  • Affiliations:
  • Industrial Management Department, Universidad de Talca, Chile;Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China;State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, PR China;Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China;Industrial Management Department, Universidad de Talca, Chile

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper considers the minimum connection problem in networks with uncertain data. In such a network it is assumed that one can establish a link e by paying a cost c"e in a given interval [c"e^-,c"e^+] while taking a risk (c"e^+-c"e)/(c"e^+-c"e^-) of link failure. We develop polynomial time algorithms for minimum cost network connection with paths or spanning trees under risk-sum constraints.