Constrained matching problems in bipartite graphs

  • Authors:
  • Monaldo Mastrolilli;Georgios Stamoulis

  • Affiliations:
  • IDSIA, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland;IDSIA, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ISCO'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We study the following generalization of maximum matchings in bipartite graphs: given a bipartite graph such that each edge has a unique color cj, we are asked to find a maximum matching that has no more than wj edges of color cj. We study bi-criteria approximation algorithms for this problem based on linear programming techniques and we show how we can obtain a family of algorithms with varying performance guarantees that can violate the color bounds. Our problem is motivated from network problems in optical fiber technologies.