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- From: jmount+@CS.CMU.EDU (John Mount)
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- Subject: Re: Is this problem NP-complete?
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- Date: 25 Aug 92 21:27:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.185050.11956@watson.ibm.com>, raghu@norway.fishkill.ibm.com (Raghu Hudli) writes:
- |> The problem is given a weighted graph G = (V,E) with positive weights
- |> for all edges in E, the weight of a vertex v_i in V is defined as the
- |> sum of the weights of edges incident on v_i. Find a subset S of V, such
- |> that |S| = K and the graph G' = ((V-S), E') has no vertex whose weight
- |> is greater than a constant T. E' is E - edges incident on vertices in S.
- |>
- |> I have heuristic solutions for the problem that seem to work well. I wanted
- |> to make sure that I was not missing the optimum solution if the problem were
- |> not NP-complete.
-
- This problem is NP complete. This is easy to see by reducing from the
- Independent Set problem (Garey and Johnson "Computers and
- Intractability": given G = (V,E) and N, find a subset S of V such that
- |S| = N and the induced subgraph has no edges), just set all the edges
- to be weight 1, T = 0 and K = |V| - N.
-
- |> Thanks in advance for your response.
- |>
- |> Raghu Hudli
- |> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> Raghu V. Hudli Tel: (914) 892-4188
- |> IBM Corporation Fax: (914) 892-4316
- |> E. Fishkill, NY email: raghu@vnet.ibm.com
- |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> Disclaimer: The opinions/views expressed here are mine and my employer
- |> does not necessarily concur with me.
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