On generalizations of network design problems with degree bounds

  • Authors:
  • Nikhil Bansal;Rohit Khandekar;Jochen Könemann;Viswanath Nagarajan;Britta Peis

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;University of Waterloo;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;Technische Universität Berlin

  • Venue:
  • IPCO'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Iterative rounding and relaxation have arguably become the method of choice in dealing with unconstrained and constrained network design problems. In this paper we extend the scope of the iterative relaxation method in two directions: (1) by handling more complex degree constraints in the minimum spanning tree problem (namely laminar crossing spanning tree), and (2) by incorporating ‘degree bounds' in other combinatorial optimization problems such as matroid intersection and lattice polyhedra. We give new or improved approximation algorithms, hardness results, and integrality gaps for these problems.