aIBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
bInstitute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota, 357 Lind Hall, 207 Church Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Abstract:
Given a graph with n nodes each of them having labels equal either to 1 or 2 (a node with label 2 is called a terminal), we consider the (1,2)-survivable network design problem and more precisely, the separation problem for the partition inequalities. We show that this separation problem reduces to a sequence of submodular flow problems. Based on an algorithm developed by Fujishige and Zhang the problem is reduced to a sequence of O(n4) minimum cut problems.