Complexity of the min–max (regret) versions of min cut problems

Complexity of the min–max (regret) versions of min cut problems

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Article ID: iaor2009371
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 66
End Page Number: 73
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Journal: Discrete Optimization
Authors: , ,
Keywords: computational analysis
Abstract:

This paper investigates the complexity of the min–max and min–max regret versions of the min s−t cut and min cut problems. Even if the underlying problems are closely related and both polynomial, the complexities of their min–max and min–max regret versions, for a constant number of scenarios, are quite contrasted since they are respectively strongly NP-hard and polynomial. However, for a non-constant number of scenarios, these versions become strongly NP-hard for both problems. In the interval scenario case, min–max versions are trivially polynomial. Moreover, for min–max regret versions, we obtain the same contrasted results as for a constant number of scenarios: min–max regret min s−t cut is strongly NP-hard whereas min–max regret min cut is polynomial.

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