English

Well-solvable cases of the QAP with block-structured matrices

Optimization and Control 2014-03-05 v2

Abstract

We investigate special cases of the quadratic assignment problem (QAP) where one of the two underlying matrices carries a simple block structure. For the special case where the second underlying matrix is a monotone anti-Monge matrix, we derive a polynomial time result for a certain class of cut problems. For the special case where the second underlying matrix is a product matrix, we identify two sets of conditions on the block structure that make this QAP polynomially solvable respectively NP-hard.

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@article{arxiv.1402.3500,
  title  = {Well-solvable cases of the QAP with block-structured matrices},
  author = {Eranda Çela and Vladimir G. Deineko and Gerhard J. Woeginger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.3500},
  year   = {2014}
}