 On biconnected and fragile subgraphs of low diameterOleksandra Yezerska, Foad Mahdavi Pajouh and Sergiy Butenko European Journal of Operational Research, 2017, vol. 263, issue 2, 390-400 Abstract: An s-club is a subset of vertices inducing a subgraph with a diameter of at most s. It is commonly used to characterize network clusters in applications for which easy reachability between group members is of high importance. In this paper, we study two special cases of the 2-club model – a biconnected 2-club, and a fragile (not biconnected) 2-club, respectively. We investigate certain properties of both models, propose a combinatorial branch-and-bound algorithm to find a maximum biconnected 2-club, and design a polynomial-time algorithm for finding a maximum fragile 2-club in a given graph. In addition, we formulate the maximum biconnected 2-club problem as a linear 0–1 program and solve this formulation by a branch-and-cut approach where some nontrivial constraints are applied in a lazy fashion. Finally, numerical results obtained using the proposed algorithms on a test-bed of randomly generated instances and real-life graphs are also provided. Keywords: 2-clubs; Biconnected 2-clubs; Fragile 2-clubs; Combinatorial branch-and-bound; Branch-and-cut; Robust network clusters (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ejores:v:263:y:2017:i:2:p:390-400 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2017.05.020 Access Statistics for this article European Journal of Operational Research is currently edited by Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati More articles in European Journal of Operational Research from Elsevier |
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