Title
A Complementary Column Generation Approach For The Graph Equipartition Problem
Abstract
This paper investigates the problem of partitioning a complete weighted graph into complete subgraphs, each having the same number of vertices, with the objective of minimizing the sum of edge weights of the resulting subgraphs. This NP-complete problem arises in many applications such as assignment and scheduling-related group partitioning problems and micro-aggregation techniques. In this paper, we present a mathematical programming model and propose a complementary column generation approach to solve the resulting model. A dual based lower bounding feature is also introduced to curtail the notorious tailing-off effects often induced when using column generation methods. Computational results are presented for a wide range of test problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.15388/20-INFOR391
INFORMATICA
Keywords
DocType
Volume
graph partitioning, column generation, complementary column generation, mixed-integer programming
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0868-4952
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Salem M. Al-Ykoob100.34
Hanif D. Sherali23403318.40