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Paroids: A canonical format for combinatorial optimization (English)
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16 January 1993
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A paroid is a matroid with ground set \(E\) and family of independent sets \(I\), and a partition \(E_ 1,E_ 2,\dots,E_ p\) of \(E\). A paroid independent set is the union of some subsets \(E_ i\) if it belongs to \(I\). The authors consider the problem of finding maximum weight paroid independent sets or bases. If \(| E_ i|=k\) for every \(i\), this reduces to the \(k\)-polymatroid matching problem which includes \(k\)- matroid intersection and matching. However, it also includes travelling salesman, vertex packing, satisfiability, graph partitioning and knapsack. The authors develop a structural hierarchy of paroids as well as duals and minors, and then briefly review their other paper about a generic paroid search algorithm.
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paroid
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matroid
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independent sets
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bases
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matching
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travelling salesman
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packing
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knapsack
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minors
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search algorithm
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