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Checking weak optimality and strong boundedness in interval linear programming

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Elif Garajová *
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Milan Hladík
DOI:10.1007/s00500-018-3520-3delete
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Interval programming provides a mathematical tool for dealing with uncertainty in optimization problems. In this paper, we study two properties of interval linear programs: weak optimality and strong boundedness. The former property refers to the existence of a scenario possessing an optimal solution, or the problem of deciding non-emptiness of the optimal set. We investigate the problem from a complexity-theoretic point of view and prove that checking weak optimality is NP-hard for all types of programs, even if the variables are restricted to a single orthant. The property of strong boundedness implies that each feasible scenario of the program has a bounded objective function. It is co-NP-hard to decide for inequality-constrained interval linear programs. For this class of programs, we derive a sufficient and necessary condition for testing strong boundedness using the orthant decomposition method. We also discuss the open problem of checking strong boundedness of programs described by equations with nonnegative variables.
Keywords:
Interval linear programming
Weak optimality
Strong boundedness
Computational complexity
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Soft Computing
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Charles University Prague
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