Article ID: | iaor20117904 |
Volume: | 188 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 307 |
End Page Number: | 329 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2011 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Alfandari Laurent, Liberti Leo, Plateau Marie-Christine |
Keywords: | programming: integer |
We consider the problem of covering the edge set of an unweighted, undirected graph with the minimum number of connected bipartite subgraphs (where the subgraphs are not necessarily bicliques). We show that this is an NP‐hard problem, provide lower bounds through an integer programming formulation, propose several constructive heuristics and a local search, and discuss computational results. Finally, we consider a constrained variant of the problem which we show to be NP‐hard, and provide an integer programming formulation for the variant.