Article ID: | iaor1988698 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 42 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 565 |
End Page Number: | 577 |
Publication Date: | Dec 1988 |
Journal: | Mathematical Programming |
Authors: | Fujishige Satoru |
A greedy algorithm solves the problem of maximizing a linear objective function over the polyhedron (called the submodular polyhedron) determined by a submodular function on a distributive lattice or a ring family. We generalize the problem by considering a submodular function on a co-intersecting family and give an algorithm for solving it. Here, simple-minded greedy augmentations do not work any more and some complicated augmentations with multiple exchanges are required. We can find an optimal solution by at most