Generating all minimal integral solutions to monotone ∧,∨-systems of linear, transversal and polymatroid inequalities

  • Authors:
  • L. Khachiyan;E. Boros;K. Elbassioni;V. Gurvich

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ;RUTCOR, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany;RUTCOR, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

  • Venue:
  • MFCS'05 Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We consider monotone ∨, ∧-formulae φ of m atoms, each of which is a monotone inequality of the form fi(x)≥ ti over the integers, where for i = 1,...,m, $f_i : \mathbb{Z}^n \mapsto \mathbb{R}$ is a given monotone function and ti is a given threshold. We show that if the ∨-degree of φ is bounded by a constant, then for linear, transversal and polymatroid monotone inequalities all minimal integer vectors satisfying φ can be generated in incremental quasi-polynomial time. In contrast, the enumeration problem for the disjunction of m inequalities is NP-hard when m is part of the input. We also discuss some applications of the above results in disjunctive programming, data mining, matroid and reliability theory.