Article ID: | iaor1997283 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 5 |
Start Page Number: | 231 |
End Page Number: | 236 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1995 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Hojati Mehran |
The network synthesis problem is to design an undirected network with a minimum total construction cost which non-simultaneously satisfies given flow requirements between pairs of nodes. This well-known problem was introduced by Gomory and hu who formulated it as a very large linear program and solved it by a method similar to column generation. The paper provides an efficient algorithm for this problem when the underlying graph is a cycle.