Article ID: | iaor19911700 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 2/3 |
Start Page Number: | 163 |
End Page Number: | 179 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1991 |
Journal: | Discrete Applied Mathematics |
Authors: | Hammer Peter L., Queyranne Maurice, Maffray Frdric |
The authors study the structure of the networks in which connectedness and disconnectedness can be expressed by a threshold system. This means that the elements of the network have a certain ‘destruction cost’ and that the enemy can disconnect the network if and only if they pay a large enough price. The authors give polynomial algorithms for the recognition of such networks, and for the determination of the appropriate costs and threshold value.