Analysis of Lagrangian lower bounds for a graph partitioning problem
Date
1999
Authors
Adil, G. K.
Ghosh, J. B.
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Source Title
Operations Research
Print ISSN
0030-364X
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1526-5463
Publisher
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Volume
47
Issue
5
Pages
785 - 788
Language
English
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Abstract
Recently, Ahmadi and Tang (1991) demonstrated how various manufacturing problems can be modeled and solved as graph partitioning problems. They use Lagrangian relaxation of two different mixed integer programming formulations to obtain both heuristic solutions and lower bounds on optimal solution values. In this note, we point to certain inconsistencies in the reported results. Among other things, we show analytically that the first bound proposed is trivial (i.e., it can never have a value greater than zero) while the second is also trivial for certain sparse graphs. We also present limited empirical results on the behavior of this second bound as a function of graph density.