Article ID: | iaor2001968 |
Country: | Japan |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 149 |
End Page Number: | 161 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2000 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan |
Authors: | Muramatsu Masakazu |
Keywords: | programming: network |
We consider a network simplex method using the primal–dual symmetric pivoting rule proposed by Chen, Pardalos, and Saunders. For minimum-cost network-flow problems, we prove global convergence of the algorithm and propose a new scheme in which the algorithim can start from an arbitrary pair of primal and dual feasible spanning trees. For shortest-path problems, we prove the strongly polynomial time complexity of the algorithm.