Bounded coloring of co-comparability graphs and the pickup and delivery tour combination problem

The Double Traveling Salesman Problem with Multiple Stacks is a vehicle routing problem in which pickups and deliveries must be performed in two independent networks. The items are stored in stacks and repacking is not allowed. Given a pickup and a delivery tour, the problem of checking if there exi...

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Autores: Bonomo, Flavia, Mattia, Sara, Oriolo, Gianpaolo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/14909
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/14909
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bounded Coloring
Capacitated Coloring
Equitable Coloring
Permutation Graphs
Scheduling Problems
Thinness
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.2
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Sumario:The Double Traveling Salesman Problem with Multiple Stacks is a vehicle routing problem in which pickups and deliveries must be performed in two independent networks. The items are stored in stacks and repacking is not allowed. Given a pickup and a delivery tour, the problem of checking if there exists a valid distribution of items into s stacks of size h that is consistent with the given tours, is known as Pickup and Delivery Tour Combination (PDTC) problem. n the paper, we show that the PDTC problem can be solved in polynomial time when the number s of stacks is fixed but the size of each stack is not. We build upon the equivalence between the PDTC problem and the bounded coloring (BC) problem on permutation graphs: for the latter problem, s is the number of colors and h is the number of vertices that can get a same color. We show that the BC problem can be solved in polynomial time when s is a fixed constant on co-comparability graphs, a superclass of permutation graphs. To the contrary, the BC problem is known to be hard on permutation graphs when h≥ 6 is a fixed constant, but s is unbounded.