Two-Connected Networks with Rings of Bounded Cardinality

  • Authors:
  • B. Fortz;M. Labbé

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut d'Administration et de Gestion, Université Catholique de Louvain, Place des Doyens 1, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. fortz@poms.ucl.ac.be;Institut de Statistique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, SMG, CP 210/01, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles, Bd du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium. mlabbe@smg.ulb.ac.be

  • Venue:
  • Computational Optimization and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We study the problem of designing at minimum cost a two-connected network such that each edge belongs to a cycle using at most K edges. This problem is a particular case of the two-connected networks with bounded meshes problem studied by Fortz, Labbé and Maffioli (Operations Research, vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 866–877, 2000).In this paper, we compute a lower bound on the number of edges in a feasible solution, we show that the problem is strongly NP-complete for any fixed K, and we derive a new class of facet defining inequalities. Numerical results obtained with a branch-and-cut algorithm using these inequalities show their effectiveness for solving the problem.