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A novel decomposition approach to set covering problems by exploiting special structures

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  • Maryam Radman
  • Kourosh Eshghi

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The set covering problem (SCP) has quite a large coefficient matrix in practical problems, but due to its low density, most of its entries are zero. Drawing on this observation, some methods can be developed to exploit special structures of the coefficient matrix of an SCP in such a way that they contain smaller dense subproblems. Against this backdrop, in this paper, three structures, namely 'partitioned', 'semi-block angular', and 'block angular', are proposed. To begin with, some heuristic methods are presented to exploit these structures of the coefficient matrices of SCPs; then, by optimally solving the smaller subproblems of these structures, their solutions are used to solve the whole problem based on the proposed theorem. Our approach has been tested using well-known instances from OR-Library and shown to be comparable with some of the recently-developed methods to solve SCPs.

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  • Maryam Radman & Kourosh Eshghi, 2022. "A novel decomposition approach to set covering problems by exploiting special structures," International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 21(2), pages 254-279.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmore:v:21:y:2022:i:2:p:254-279
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