Article ID: | iaor19991951 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 499 |
End Page Number: | 504 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1998 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Laporte Gilbert, Labb Martine, Soriano Patrick |
Keywords: | heuristics |
This article describes a lower bounding procedure and heuristics for the Cycle Cover Problem which consists of determining a least cost cover of an undirected graph with simple cycles. Applications of this problem arise in network design and in telecommunications. Computational results demonstrate the quality of the proposed heuristics. On 100 vertex graphs, the best of these consistently produces optimal or quasi-optimal solutions.