Title
Robust network optimization under polyhedral demand uncertainty is NP-hard
Abstract
Minimum cost network design/dimensioning problems where feasibility has to be ensured w.r.t. a given (possibly infinite) set of scenarios of requirements form an important subclass of robust LP problems with right-hand side uncertainty. Such problems arise in many practical contexts such as Telecommunications, logistic networks, power distribution networks, etc. Though some evidence of the computational difficulty of such problems can be found in the literature, no formal NP-hardness proof was available up to now. In the present paper, this pending complexity issue is settled for all robust network optimization problems featuring polyhedral demand uncertainty, both for the single-commodity and multicommodity case, even if the corresponding deterministic versions are polynomially solvable as regular (continuous) linear programs. A new family of polynomially solvable instances is also discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.dam.2009.09.025
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Robust optimization,Network optimization,Network flows,Polyhedral uncertainty,Multicommodity flows
Flow network,Combinatorics,Mathematical optimization,Network planning and design,Robust optimization,Distribution networks,Dimensioning,Optimization problem,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
158
5
0166-218X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.84
13
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michel Minoux1741100.18