A Class of Inverse Dominant Problems under Weighted l∞ Norm and an Improved Complexity Bound for Radzik's Algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Qin Wang;Xiaoguang Yang;Jianzhong Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China 310018;Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China 100080;Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P. R. China

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

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Abstract

In this paper, we first discuss a class of inverse dominant problems under weighted l驴 norm, which is how to change the original weights of elements with bounds in a finite ground set so that a given set becomes a weakly dominant set with respect to a given collection of subsets under the new weights and the largest change of the weights is minimum. This model includes a large class of improvement problems in combinatorial optimization. We propose a Newton-type algorithm for the model. This algorithm can solve the model in strongly polynomial time if the subproblem involved is solvable in strongly polynomial time. In the second part of the paper, we improve the complexity bound for Radzik's Newton-type method which is designed to solve linear fractional combinatorial optimization problems. As Radzik's method is closely related to our algorithm, this bound also estimates the complexity of our algorithm.