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Output-sensitive complexity of multi-objective integer network flow problems

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David Könen *
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Michael Stiglmayr
DOI:10.1007/s10878-025-01376-2delete
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This paper addresses the output-sensitive complexity for linear multi-objective minimum cost integer flow problem, providing insights into the time complexity for enumerating all supported nondominated vectors. The paper shows that there cannot exist an output-polynomial time algorithm for the enumeration of all supported nondominated vectors that determine the vectors in an lexicographically ordered way in the outcome space unless \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\textbf{P}=\textbf{N P}$$\end{document}. Moreover, novel methods for identifying supported nondominated vectors in bi-objective minimum cost integer flow problems are proposed, accompanied by a numerical comparison between decision- and objective-space methods. A novel, equivalent, and more compact formulation of the minimum cost flow ILP formulation used in the \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\varepsilon $$\end{document}-constraint scalarization approach is introduced, demonstrating enhanced efficiency in the numerical tests.
Keywords:
Minimum cost flow
Multi-objective integer linear programming
Multi-objective network flow
Complexity theory
Output-sensitive
Weakly supported
Output-polynomial algorithm

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Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
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1.1
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78
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University of Wuppertal
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