Branch and cut algorithms for detecting critical nodes in undirected graphs

  • Authors:
  • Marco Di Summa;Andrea Grosso;Marco Locatelli

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy 35121;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy 10149;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy 43124

  • Venue:
  • Computational Optimization and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper we deal with the critical node problem, where a given number of nodes has to be removed from an undirected graph in order to maximize the disconnections between the node pairs of the graph. We propose an integer linear programming model with a non-polynomial number of constraints but whose linear relaxation can be solved in polynomial time. We derive different valid inequalities and some theoretical results about them. We also propose an alternative model based on a quadratic reformulation of the problem. Finally, we perform many computational experiments and analyze the corresponding results.