An s-t connection problem with adaptability

  • Authors:
  • David Adjiashvili;Rico Zenklusen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We study a new two-stage version of an s-t path problem, which we call adaptable robust connection path (ARCP). Given an undirected graph G=(V,E), two vertices s,t@?V and two integers f,r@?Z"+, ARCP asks to find a set S@?E of minimum cardinality which connects s and t, such that for any 'failure set' F@?E with |F|@?f, the set of edges S@?F can be completed to a set which connects s and t by adding at most r edges from E@?F. We show the problem is NP-hard, and there is no polynomial-time @a-approximation algorithm for the problem for @a