Another greedy heuristic for the constrained forest problem

  • Authors:
  • Michael Laszlo;Sumitra Mukherjee

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, 3301 College Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA;Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, 3301 College Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The constrained forest problem seeks a minimum-weight spanning forest in an undirected edge-weighted graph such that each tree spans at least a specified number of vertices. We present a greedy heuristic for this NP-hard problem, whose solutions are at least as good as, and often better than, those produced by the best-known 2-approximate heuristic.