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Fixed Linear Crossing Minimization by Reduction to the Maximum Cut Problem

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Fixed Linear Crossing Minimization by Reduction to the Maximum Cut Problem
Many real-life scheduling, routing and location problems can be formulated as combinatorial optimization problems whose goal is to find a linear layout of an input graph in such a way that the number of edge crossings is minimized. In this paper, we study a restricted version of the linear layout problem where the order of vertices on the line is fixed, the so-called fixed linear crossing number problem (FLCNP). We show that this NP-hard problem can be reduced to the well-known maximum cut problem. The latter problem was intensively studied in the literature; efficient exact algorithms based on the branch-and-cut technique have been developed. By an experimental evaluation on a variety of graphs, we show that using this reduction for solving FLCNP compares favorably to earlier branch-and-bound algorithms.
Christoph Buchheim, Lanbo Zheng
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Type Conference
Year 2006
Where COCOON
Authors Christoph Buchheim, Lanbo Zheng
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