Minimum entropy orientations

  • Authors:
  • Jean Cardinal;Samuel Fiorini;GwenaëL Joret

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles, Département d'Informatique, c.p. 212, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium;Université Libre de Bruxelles, Département de Mathématique, c.p. 216, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium;Université Libre de Bruxelles, Département d'Informatique, c.p. 212, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We study graph orientations that minimize the entropy of the in-degree sequence. We prove that the minimum entropy orientation problem is NP-hard even if the graph is planar, and that there exists a simple linear-time algorithm that returns an approximate solution with an additive error guarantee of 1 bit.