Article ID: | iaor2001494 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 121 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 532 |
End Page Number: | 548 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2000 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Mahey P., Ouorou A. |
Keywords: | programming: convex |
We propose a new method based on minimum mean cycle cancelling for multicommodity flow problems with separable convex cost ruling out saturated capacities. This method is inspired by the cycle cancelling method first worked out by Goldberg and Tarjan for minimum cost circulations. Convergence of the method is formally proved and a variant with a more flexible selection of cycles is proposed. Also, we report some computational experience on the message routing problem in telecommunication networks using actual and randomly generated networks.