• Title of article

    The quadraticminimumspanningtreeproblem:Alowerboundingprocedure and anefficientsearchalgorithm

  • Author/Authors

    Temel O¨ ncan ، نويسنده , , AbrahamP.Punnen، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    12
  • From page
    1762
  • To page
    1773
  • Abstract
    In thispaperweconsiderthequadraticminimumspanningtreeproblem(QMSTP)whichisknownto be NP-hard.Givenacompletegraph,theQMSTPconsistsoffindingaminimumspanningtree(MST) whereinteractioncostsbetweenpairsofedgesareprescribed.ALagrangianrelaxationprocedureis devised andanefficientlocalsearchalgorithmwithtabuthresholdingisdeveloped.Computational experimentsarereportedonstandardtestinstances,randomlygeneratedtestinstancesandquadratic assignmentproblem(QAP)instancesfromtheQAPLIBbyusingatransformationscheme.Thelocal search heuristicyieldsverygoodperformanceandtheLagrangianrelaxationproceduregivesthe tightestlowerboundsforallinstanceswhencomparedtopreviouslowerboundingapproaches.
  • Keywords
    Quadratic minimum spanning tree problem , Lagrangian relaxation , Local search
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927782