The complexity of the capacitated tree problem

Networks - Tập 8 Số 3 - Trang 217-230 - 1978
Christos H. Papadimitriou1
1Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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AbstractWe examine the complexity of a classical problem related to the design of centralized computer networks. Under very broad assumptions the problem is shown to be NP‐complete, and hence most probably intractable. The same result holds for the “Euclidean” case of the problem; however, in the latter case a simple algorithm produces solutions with relative error almost certainly arbitrarily close to zero.

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