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The Capacitated Minimal Spanning Tree Problem: An experiment with a hop‐indexedmodel

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  • L. Gouveia
  • P. Martins

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The Capacitated Minimal Spanning Tree Problem (CMSTP) is to find a minimal spanningtree with an additional cardinality constraint on the size of the subtrees off of a given rootnode. This problem is closely related to the design of centralized networks where one wantsto link, with minimum cost, several terminals to a given root node (typically, a concentratoror a computer center). In this paper, we present a new extended and compact formulationfor the CMSTP. This formulation is a “hop‐indexed” single‐commodity flow model andgeneralizes a well‐known single‐commodity flow model. We introduce a new set of validinequalities, denoted by “hop ordering” inequalities, which are not redundant for the LPrelaxation of the new formulation. We present a new cutting plane method for the CMSTPwith the new formulation as the initial model and using constraint generation for adding“hop‐ordering” constraints and generalized subtour elimination constraints to the currentLP model. We present computational results from a set of tests with 40 and 80 nodes whichcompare our lower bounds with the bounds given by other known methods. The main contributionof our proposed method is to considerably close previously known gaps for testswhich have been classified as hard ones, namely tightly capacitated tests with the root in thecorner of the grid of points. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999

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  • L. Gouveia & P. Martins, 1999. "The Capacitated Minimal Spanning Tree Problem: An experiment with a hop‐indexedmodel," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 86(0), pages 271-294, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:annopr:v:86:y:1999:i:0:p:271-294:10.1023/a:1018911003529
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1018911003529
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    1. Gustavo Bergantiños & Leticia Lorenzo, 2021. "Cost additive rules in minimum cost spanning tree problems with multiple sources," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 301(1), pages 5-15, June.
    2. Scheibe, Kevin P. & Ragsdale, Cliff T., 2009. "A model for the capacitated, hop-constrained, per-packet wireless mesh network design problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 197(2), pages 773-784, September.
    3. Uchoa, Eduardo & Fukasawa, Ricardo & Lysgaard, Jens & Pessoa, Artur & Poggi de Aragão, Marcus & Andrade, Diogo, 2006. "Robust Branch-Cut-and-Price for the Capacitated Minimum Spanning Tree Problem over a Large Extended Formulation," CORAL Working Papers L-2006-08, University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Business Studies.
    4. Zhixing Luo & Hu Qin & T. C. E. Cheng & Qinghua Wu & Andrew Lim, 2021. "A Branch-and-Price-and-Cut Algorithm for the Cable-Routing Problem in Solar Power Plants," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 33(2), pages 452-476, May.

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