The Hierarchical Chinese Postman Problem: The slightest disorder makes it hard, yet disconnectedness is manageable

The Hierarchical Chinese Postman Problem is finding a shortest traversal of all edges of a graph respecting precedence constraints given by a partial order on classes of edges. We show that the special case with connected classes is NP-hard even on orders decomposable into a chain and an incomparabl...

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Vydané v:Operations research letters Ročník 49; číslo 2; s. 270 - 277
Hlavní autori: Afanasev, Vsevolod A., van Bevern, René, Tsidulko, Oxana Yu
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Elsevier B.V 01.03.2021
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ISSN:0167-6377, 1872-7468
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Shrnutí:The Hierarchical Chinese Postman Problem is finding a shortest traversal of all edges of a graph respecting precedence constraints given by a partial order on classes of edges. We show that the special case with connected classes is NP-hard even on orders decomposable into a chain and an incomparable class. For the case with linearly ordered (possibly disconnected) classes, we get 5/3-approximations and fixed-parameter algorithms by transferring results from the Rural Postman Problem.
ISSN:0167-6377
1872-7468
DOI:10.1016/j.orl.2021.01.017