Detecting critical nodes in sparse graphs

作者: Ashwin Arulselvan , Clayton W. Commander , Lily Elefteriadou , Panos M. Pardalos

DOI: 10.1016/J.COR.2008.08.016

关键词: Combinatorial optimizationConnectivityCritical graphLinear programmingDense graphInteger programmingCommercial softwareMathematicsMathematical optimizationHeuristics

摘要: Identifying critical nodes in a graph is important to understand the structural characteristics and connectivity properties of network. In this paper, we focus on detecting nodes, or whose deletion results minimum pair-wise among remaining nodes. This problem, known as node problem has applications several fields including biomedicine, telecommunications, military strategic planning. We show that recognition version NP-complete derive mathematical formulation based integer linear programming. addition, propose heuristic for which exploits combinatorial structure graph. The then enhanced by application local improvement method. A computational study presented apply programming real randomly generated data sets. For all instances tested, able efficiently provide optimal solutions fraction time required commercial software package.

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