TY - JOUR
T1 - Approximability of partitioning graphs with supply and demand
AU - Ito, Takehiro
AU - Demaine, Erik D.
AU - Zhou, Xiao
AU - Nishizeki, Takao
PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - Suppose that each vertex of a graph G is either a supply vertex or a demand vertex and is assigned a positive real number, called the supply or the demand. Each demand vertex can receive "power" from at most one supply vertex through edges in G. One thus wishes to partition G into connected components by deleting edges from G so that each component C either has no supply vertex or has exactly one supply vertex whose supply is at least the sum of demands in C, and wishes to maximize the fulfillment, that is, the sum of demands in all components with supply vertices. This maximization problem is known to be NP-hard even for trees having exactly one supply vertex and strongly NP-hard for general graphs. In this paper, we focus on the approximability of the problem. We first show that the problem is MAXSNP-hard and hence there is no polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for general graphs unless P = NP. We then present a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for series-parallel graphs having exactly one supply vertex.
AB - Suppose that each vertex of a graph G is either a supply vertex or a demand vertex and is assigned a positive real number, called the supply or the demand. Each demand vertex can receive "power" from at most one supply vertex through edges in G. One thus wishes to partition G into connected components by deleting edges from G so that each component C either has no supply vertex or has exactly one supply vertex whose supply is at least the sum of demands in C, and wishes to maximize the fulfillment, that is, the sum of demands in all components with supply vertices. This maximization problem is known to be NP-hard even for trees having exactly one supply vertex and strongly NP-hard for general graphs. In this paper, we focus on the approximability of the problem. We first show that the problem is MAXSNP-hard and hence there is no polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for general graphs unless P = NP. We then present a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for series-parallel graphs having exactly one supply vertex.
KW - Approximation algorithm
KW - Demand
KW - FPTAS
KW - Graph partition problem
KW - MAXSNP-hard
KW - Series-parallel graph
KW - Supply
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jda.2008.03.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jda.2008.03.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:54449090702
VL - 6
SP - 627
EP - 650
JO - Journal of Discrete Algorithms
JF - Journal of Discrete Algorithms
SN - 1570-8667
IS - 4
ER -