Solution of large weighted equicut problems

Solution of large weighted equicut problems

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Article ID: iaor19992521
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 106
Issue: 2/3
Start Page Number: 500
End Page Number: 521
Publication Date: Apr 1998
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
Authors: ,
Keywords: heuristics
Abstract:

Given a weighted undirected graph, the equicut problem consists of finding a partition of the vertex set into two sub-sets of equal cardinality such that the sum of the weights of the edges belonging to the cut defined by the partition is minimized. The problem is NP-hard and has several practical applications. In recent years a number of algorithms based on metaheuristic techniques have been proposed. In this work we first present a survey of the algorithms from the literature, then we propose a new tabu search algorithm and compare it with the other heuristics through extensive computational experiments on several classes of graphs with up to 4000 nodes and 320 000 edges. The results show that our approach easily determines the optimal solution for small graphs and its average performances are greatly superior to those of the other approximating algorithms.

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