Masi-IBP
1996/17: Rapport de Recherche
Masi / Masi
research reports
16 pages - Juin/June 1996 -
Document en anglais.
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Titre français : Relaxations pour les problèmes de multiflot à coût minimum avec des fonctions de coût croissantes en escalier et résultats expérimentaux
Titre anglais : Large scale LP relaxations for minimum cost multicommodity flow problems with step increasing cost functions and computational results
Abstract : We address here a class of particularly hard-to-solve minimum cost multicommodity network flow problems when the link cost functions are discontinuous step increasing. Several LP relaxations for such problems are proposed, giving rise to (very) large scale linear programs. It is shown that the continuous optimal solutions to these linear programs can nevertheless be obtained via combined column generation and constraint generation procedures. Preliminary computational results are presented showing that our relaxations lead to lower bounds typically within 10% to 20% off the (unknown) optimal values.
As far as we know, this is the first time a systematic way of generating nontrivial lower bounds to minimum cost multicommodity network flow problems with step increasing (discontinuous) cost functions is proposed.
Key-words : Telecommunication network optimization, minimum cost multicommodity network flow, large scale optimization
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