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doi: 10.3934/jimo.2019108

Inverse group 1-median problem on trees

Kien Trung Nguyen 1, , Vo Nguyen Minh Hieu 1, and  Van Huy Pham 2,,

1. 

Department of Mathematics, Teacher College, Can Tho University, Can Tho, Vietnam
2. 

AI Lab, Faculty of Information Technology, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

* Corresponding author: Van Huy Pham

Received  October 2018 Revised  April 2019 Published  September 2019

In location theory, group median generalizes the concepts of both median and center. We address in this paper the problem of modifying vertex weights of a tree at minimum total cost so that a prespecified vertex becomes a group 1-median with respect to the new weights. We call this problem the inverse group 1-median on trees. To solve the problem, we first reformulate the optimality criterion for a vertex being a group 1-median of the tree. Based on this result, we prove that the problem is $ NP $-hard. Particularly, the corresponding problem with exactly two groups is however solvable in $ O(n^2\log n) $ time, where $ n $ is the number of vertices in the tree.

Keywords: Group median, inverse optimization, tree, complexity, parameterization.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 90B10, 90B80, 90C27.
Citation: Kien Trung Nguyen, Vo Nguyen Minh Hieu, Van Huy Pham. Inverse group 1-median problem on trees. Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, doi: 10.3934/jimo.2019108
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B. Alizadeh, E. Afrashteh and F. Baroughi, Combinatorial algorithms for some variants of inverse obnoxious median location problem on tree networks, J. Optim. Theory Appl., 178 (2018), 914-934.  doi: 10.1007/s10957-018-1334-1.  Google Scholar

[2]

B. Alizadeh and R. E. Burkard, Combinatorial algorithms for inverse absolute and vertex 1-center location problems on trees, Networks, 58 (2011), 190-200.  doi: 10.1002/net.20427.  Google Scholar

[3]

B. Alizadeh and R. E. Burkard, Uniform-cost inverse absolute and vertex center location problems with edge length variations on trees, Discrete Appl. Math., 159 (2011), 706-716.  doi: 10.1016/j.dam.2011.01.009.  Google Scholar

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B. Alizadeh and R. E. Burkard, A linear time algorithm for inverse obnoxious center location problems on networks, CEJOR Cent. Eur. J. Oper. Res., 21 (2013), 585-594.  doi: 10.1007/s10100-012-0248-5.  Google Scholar

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F. B. Bonab, R. E. Burkard and E. Gassner, Inverse p-median problems with variable edge lengths, Math. Methods Oper. Res., 73 (2011), 263-280.  doi: 10.1007/s00186-011-0346-5.  Google Scholar

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R. E. Burkard, C. Pleschiutschnig and J. Zhang, Inverse median problems, Discrete Optim., 1 (2004), 23-39.  doi: 10.1016/j.disopt.2004.03.003.  Google Scholar

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M. C. Cai, X. G. Yang and J. Z. Zhang, The complexity analysis of the inverse center location problem, J. Global Optim., 15 (1999), 213-218.  doi: 10.1023/A:1008360312607.  Google Scholar

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Z. Drezner and H. W. Hamacher, Facility Location Applications and Theory, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-56082-8.  Google Scholar

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M. Galavii, The inverse 1-median problem on a tree and on a path, Electron Notes in Discrete Math., 36 (2010), 1241-1248.  doi: 10.1016/j.endm.2010.05.157.  Google Scholar

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M. R. Garey, and D. S. Johnson, Computers and intractability: A guide to the theory of $NP$-completeness, W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, CA, 1979.  Google Scholar

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E. Gassner, An inverse approach to convex ordered median problems in trees, J. Comb. Optim., 23 (2012), 261-273.  doi: 10.1007/s10878-010-9353-3.  Google Scholar

[13]

A. J. Goldman, Optimal center location in simple networks, Transportation Sci., 5 (1971), 212-221.  doi: 10.1287/trsc.5.2.212.  Google Scholar

[14]

X. Guan and B. Zhang, Inverse 1-median problem on trees under weighted Hamming distance, J. Global Optim., 54 (2012), 75-82.  doi: 10.1007/s10898-011-9742-x.  Google Scholar

[15]

S. K. Gupta and A. P. Punnen, Group centre and group median of a network., European J. Oper. Res., 38 (1989), 94-97.  doi: 10.1016/0377-2217(89)90473-6.  Google Scholar

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S. K. Gupta and A. P. Punnen, Group centre and group median of a tree, European J. Oper. Res., 65 (1993), 400-406.  doi: 10.1016/0377-2217(93)90119-8.  Google Scholar

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[18]

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[19]

O. Kariv and S. L. Hakimi, An algorithmic approach to network location problems. Ⅱ: The p-medians, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 37 (1979), 539-560.  doi: 10.1137/0137041.  Google Scholar

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I. Keshtkar and M. Ghiyasvand, Inverse quickest center location problem on a tree, Discrete Appl. Math., 260 (2019), 188-202.  doi: 10.1016/j.dam.2019.01.001.  Google Scholar

[21]

N. Megiddo, Linear-time algorithms for linear programming in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and related problems, SIAM J. Comput., 12 (1983), 759-776.  doi: 10.1137/0212052.  Google Scholar

[22]

S. Nickel and J. Puerto, Location Theory - A unified approach, Springer, Berlin, 2004. doi: 10.1007/3-540-27640-8.  Google Scholar

[23]

K. T. Nguyen, Inverse 1-median problem on block graphs with variable vertex weights, J. Optim. Theory Appl., 168 (2016), 944-957.  doi: 10.1007/s10957-015-0829-2.  Google Scholar

[24]

K. T. Nguyen, Some polynomially solvable cases of the inverse ordered 1-median problem on trees, Filomat, 31 (2017), 3651-3664.  doi: 10.2298/FIL1712651N.  Google Scholar

[25]

K. T. Nguyen and L. Q. Anh, Inverse k-centrum problem on trees with variable vertex weights, Math. Methods Oper. Res., 82 (2015), 19-30.  doi: 10.1007/s00186-015-0502-4.  Google Scholar

[26]

K. T. Nguyen and A. Chassein, The inverse convex ordered 1-median problem on trees under Chebyshev norm and Hamming distance, European J. Oper. Res., 247 (2015), 774-781.  doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.06.064.  Google Scholar

[27]

K. T. Nguyen and A. R. Sepasian, The inverse 1-center problem on trees under Chebyshev norm and Hamming distance, J. Comb. Optim., 32 (2016), 872-884.  doi: 10.1007/s10878-015-9907-5.  Google Scholar

[28]

K. T. Nguyen, The inverse 1-center problem on cycles with variable edge lengths, CEJOR Cent. Eur. J. Oper. Res., 27 (2019), 263-274.  doi: 10.1007/s10100-017-0509-4.  Google Scholar

[29]

K. T. Nguyen, N. T. Huong and T. H. Nguyen, On the complexity of inverse convex ordered 1-median problem on the plane and on tree networks, Math. Methods Oper. Res., 88 (2018), 147-159.  doi: 10.1007/s00186-018-0632-6.  Google Scholar

[30]

K. T. Nguyen, N. T. Huong and T. H. Nguyen, Combinatorial algorithms for the uniform-cost inverse 1-center problem on weighted trees, Acta Mathematica Vietnamica, (2018), 1–19. doi: 10.1007/s40306-018-0286-8.  Google Scholar

[31]

J. Puerto, F. Ricca and A. Scozzari, Extensive facility location problems on networks: an updated review, TOP, 26 (2018), 187-266.  doi: 10.1007/s11750-018-0476-5.  Google Scholar

Figure 1.  An instance of the inverse 2-group 1-median problem on trees
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Table 1.  An instance of the inverse 2-group 1-median problem
$ j $ 1 2 3 5
$ \bar{q}^1_j $ 0 0 0 0
$ \bar{q}^2_j $ 0 0 0 -
$ \bar{p}^1_j $ 0 0 0 3
$ \bar{p}^2_j $ 0 0 16 -
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$ j $ 1 2 3 5
$ \bar{q}^1_j $ 0 0 0 0
$ \bar{q}^2_j $ 0 0 0 -
$ \bar{p}^1_j $ 0 0 0 3
$ \bar{p}^2_j $ 0 0 16 -
Table 2.  An instance of the subproblem $ (P^1_{v^1_4}) $
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Table 3.  Cost values at breakpoints
$ t $ 8 10 18 20
$ C(t) $ 46 44 49 56
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$ t $ 8 10 18 20
$ C(t) $ 46 44 49 56
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