Quadratic assignment problems on series-parallel digraphs

Unternehmensforschung - Tập 30 - Trang A161-A173 - 1986
F. Rendl1
1Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Graz, Graz, Austria

Tóm tắt

Christofides has shown that the quadratic assignment problem (QAP) on isomorphic trees is solvable in polynomial time by dynamic programming. We generalize the approach to minimal series-parallel digraphs and show that this problem is equivalent to the general QAP, thus NP-hard. However the restriction to the subclass of series-parallel digraphs not containing bipartite subgraphs again is solvable in polynomial time. An algorithm for this class is given.

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