Polyhedral Aspects of the Consecutive Ones Problem

  • Authors:
  • Marcus Oswald;Gerhard Reinelt

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • COCOON '00 Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

A 0/1-matrix has the consecutive ones property for rows if its columns can be permuted such that in every row all ones appear consecutively. Whereas it is easy to decide whether a given matrix has the consecutive ones property, it is difficult to find for a given 0/1-matrix B a consecutive ones matrix A that resembles B as closely as possible (in a sense to be specified). In this paper we study the latter problem from a polyhedral point of view and discuss an integer programming formulation that can serve as a basis for a branch-and-cut algorithm and give separation algorithms.