Constrained Inverse Minimum Spanning Tree Problems under the Bottleneck-Type Hamming Distance

  • Authors:
  • Binwu Zhang;Jianzhong Zhang;Yong He

  • Affiliations:
  • Aff1 Aff3;Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Global Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider the inverse minimum spanning tree problem under the bottleneck-type Hamming distance, where the weights of edges can be modified only within given intervals. We further consider the constrained case in which the total modification cost cannot exceed a given upper bound. It is shown that these inverse problems can be transformed into a minimum node cover problem on a bipartite graph, and we give a strongly polynomial time algorithm to solve this type of node cover problems.