A min-max regret approach for the Steiner Tree Problem with Interval Costs

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  • Presentation type: Trabalho completo (oral)
  • Track: 14. OC – Otimização Combinatória
  • Keywords: Steiner tree problem; Min-max regret; interval uncertainty;
  • 1 Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  • 2 Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
  • 3 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • 4 Université Le Havre

A min-max regret approach for the Steiner Tree Problem with Interval Costs

Iago Augusto Carvalho

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Abstract

Let G=(V,E) be a connected graph, where V and E represent, respectively, the node-set and the edge-set. Besides, let Q \subseteq V be a set of terminal nodes, and $r \in Q$ be the root node of the graph. Given a weight c_{ij} in N associated to each edge (i,j) in E, the Steiner Tree Problem in graphs (STP) consists in finding a minimum-weight subgraph of G that spans all nodes in Q. In this paper, we consider the Min-max Regret Steiner Tree Problem with Interval Costs (MMR-STP), a robust variant of STP. In this variant, the weight of the edges are not known in advance, but are assumed to vary in the interval [l_{ij}, u_{ij}]. We develop an ILP formulation, an exact algorithm, and three heuristics for this problem. Computational experiments, performed on generalizations of the classical STP instances, evaluate the efficiency and the limits of the proposed methods.

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