Acyclic orientations with path constraints
RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle, Tome 42 (2008) no. 4, pp. 455-467.

Many well-known combinatorial optimization problems can be stated over the set of acyclic orientations of an undirected graph. For example, acyclic orientations with certain diameter constraints are closely related to the optimal solutions of the vertex coloring and frequency assignment problems. In this paper we introduce a linear programming formulation of acyclic orientations with path constraints, and discuss its use in the solution of the vertex coloring problem and some versions of the frequency assignment problem. A study of the polytope associated with the formulation is presented, including proofs of which constraints of the formulation are facet-defining and the introduction of new classes of valid inequalities.

DOI : 10.1051/ro:2008028
Classification : 90C27, 90C57
Mots clés : acyclic orientations, path constraints, combinatorial optimization problems, facets of polyhedra
Rosa M. V. Figueiredo  ; Barbosa, Valmir C.  ; Maculan, Nelson  ; Cid C. de Souza 1

1 Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação, Caixa Postal 6176, 13084-971 Campinas - SP, Brazil;
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Rosa M. V. Figueiredo; Barbosa, Valmir C.; Maculan, Nelson; Cid C. de Souza. Acyclic orientations with path constraints. RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle, Tome 42 (2008) no. 4, pp. 455-467. doi : 10.1051/ro:2008028. http://archive.numdam.org/articles/10.1051/ro:2008028/

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