Analysis of heuristics for the design of tree networks

We analyze the tour partitioning heuristics for the Capacitated Minimum Spanning Tree problem. Lower bounds for the worst-case performance ratios of these heuristics are obtained by using worst-case examples. We also generalize the heuristics to the multi-center case with the same worst-case bounds.The work of the first author was supported by a Dean Summer Research Grant from Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University.Work done in part in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University.The work of the last two authors was supported in part by ONR contract N00014-90-J-1649, NSF contract DDM-8922712 and the Center for Telecommunications Research under NSF contract CDR 84-21402.