Scheduling arc shut downs in a network to maximize flow over time with a bounded number of jobs per time period

DOI10.1007/S10878-015-9910-XzbMATH Open1348.90471arXiv1307.3650OpenAlexW1949683236WikidataQ57955336 ScholiaQ57955336MaRDI QIDQ326488FDOQ326488

Natashia Boland, Simranjit Kaur, Thomas Kalinowski

Publication date: 12 October 2016

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the problem of scheduling maintenance on arcs of a capacitated network so as to maximize the total flow from a source node to a sink node over a set of time periods. Maintenance on an arc shuts down the arc for the duration of the period in which its maintenance is scheduled, making its capacity zero for that period. A set of arcs is designated to have maintenance during the planning period, which will require each to be shut down for exactly one time period. In general this problem is known to be NP-hard, and several special instance classes have been studied. Here we propose an additional constraint which limits the number of maintenance jobs per time period, and we study the impact of this on the complexity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3650

zbMATH Keywords

complexity theorymixed integer programmingnetwork modelsmaintenance scheduling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Integer programming (90C10)

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