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Approximation algorithms for disjoint st-paths with minimum activation cost

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posted on 2015-02-11, 13:28 authored by Hasna Mohsen Alqahtani, Thomas Erlebach
In network activation problems we are given a directed or undirected graph G = (V,E) with a family {f (x, x) : (u,v) ∈ E} of monotone non-decreasing activation functions from D to {0,1}, where D is a constant-size domain. The goal is to find activation values x for all v ∈ V of minimum total cost Σ x such that the activated set of edges satisfies some connectivity requirements. Network activation problems generalize several problems studied in the network literature such as power optimization problems. We devise an approximation algorithm for the fundamental problem of finding the Minimum Activation Cost Pair of Node-Disjoint st-Paths (MA2NDP). The algorithm achieves approximation ratio 1.5 for both directed and undirected graphs. We show that a ρ-approximation algorithm for MA2NDP with fixed activation values for s and t yields a ρ-approximation algorithm for the Minimum Activation Cost Pair of Edge-Disjoint st-Paths (MA2EDP) problem. We also study the MA2NDP and MA2EDP problems for the special case |D| = 2.

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2013, 7878 LNCS, pp. 1-12

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Computer Science

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8th International Conference, CIAC 2013, Barcelona, Spain, May 22-24, 2013.

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

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Springer Verlag (Germany)

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0302-9743

eissn

1611-3349

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978-3-642-38232-1;978-3-642-38233-8

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1007

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2015-02-11

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http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-38233-8_1

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science;7878

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en

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