This paper deals with the ring star problem that consists in designing a ring that pass through a central depot, and then assigning each non visited customer to a node of the ring. The objective is to minimize the total routing and assignment costs. A new chain based formulation is proposed. Valid inequalities are proposed … Read more
The Single Row Facility Layout Problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities of given lengths on a line, while minimizing a weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The SRFLP is strongly NP-hard and includes the well-known linear arrangement problem as a special case. We perform the first ever polyhedral study … Read more
We study a system of linear inequalities associated with the uncapacitated facility location problem. We show that this system defines a polytope with integer extreme points if and only if the graph does not contain a certain type of odd cycles. We also derive odd cycle inequalities and give a separation algorithm. Article Download View … Read more
We study the set $S = \{(x, y) \in \Re_{+} \times Z^{n}: x + B_{j} y_{j} \geq b_{j}, j = 1, \ldots, n\}$, where $B_{j}, b_{j} \in \Re_{+} – \{0\}$, $j = 1, \ldots, n$, and $B_{1} | \cdots | B_{n}$. The set $S$ generalizes the mixed-integer rounding (MIR) set of Nemhauser and Wolsey and … Read more
This paper is the first of a series of two devoted to the polyhedral study of a strongly NP-hard resource-constrained scheduling problem, referred to as the process move programming problem. This problem arises in relation to the operability of certain high-availability real time distributed systems. After a brief introduction to the problem as well as … Read more
This paper is the second of a series of two devoted to the polyhedral study of a strongly NP-hard resource-constrained scheduling problem, referred to as the process move programming problem. In the present paper, we put back into the picture the capacity constraints which were ignored in the first paper. In doing so, we introduce … Read more
This paper is devoted to the study of the reroute sequence planning problem in multi-protocol label switching networks from the polyhedral viewpoint. The reroute sequence plan polytope, defined as the convex hull of the incidence vectors of the reroute sequences which do not violate the network link capacities, is introduced and some of its properties … Read more
This paper is devoted to the exact resolution of a strongly NP-hard resource-constrained scheduling problem, the Process Move Programming problem, which arises in relation to the operability of certain high availability real time distributed systems. Based on the study of the polytope defined as the convex hull of the incidence vectors of the admissible process … Read more
We study the convex hull $P$ of the set $S = \{(x, y) \in \Re_{+} \times Z^{n}: x + B_{i} y_{ij} \geq b_{ij}, j \in N_{i}, i \in M\}$, where $M = \{1, \ldots, m\}$, $N_{i} = \{1, \ldots, n_{i}\}$ $\forall i \in M$, $\sum_{i = 1}^{m}n_{i} = n$, and $B_{1} | \cdots | B_{m}$. … Read more
We study the convex hull of the feasible set of the semi-continuous knapsack problem, in which the variables belong to the union of two intervals. Besides being important in its own right, the semi-continuous knapsack problem is a relaxation of general mixed-integer programming. We show how strong inequalities valid for the semi-continuous knapsack polyhedron can … Read more