On the minimum quartet tree cost problem
Discrete Mathematics
2018-07-03 v1
Abstract
Given a set of n data objects and their pairwise dissimilarities, the goal of the minimum quartet tree cost (MQTC) problem is to construct an optimal tree from the total number of possible combinations of quartet topologies on n, where optimality means that the sum of the dissimilarities of the embedded (or consistent) quartet topologies is minimal. We provide details and formulation of this novel challenging problem, and the preliminaries of an exact algorithm under current development which may be useful to improve the MQTC heuristics to date into more efficient hybrid approaches.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.00566,
title = {On the minimum quartet tree cost problem},
author = {Sergio Consoli and Jan Korst and Gijs Geleijnse and Steffen Pauws},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.00566},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
3 pages, MIC/MAEB 2017, Barcelona, Spain