Color constrained combinatorial optimization problems

  • Authors:
  • Horst W. Hamacher;Franz Rendl

  • Affiliations:
  • Fachbereich Mathematik, Universität Kaiserslautern, FRG;Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Graz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

We consider combinatorial optimization problems in which each feasible solution contains l"1,...,l"k elements of a given set of colors E"1,...,E"k, respectively. We show how to reduce this problem to a parametric problem with pairwise disjoint colors and derive as special cases polynomial algorithms for one instance of a 3-matroid intersection problem and colored bipartite matching problems.