Complexity of partial inverse assignment problem and partial inverse cut problem
RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle, Tome 35 (2001) no. 1, pp. 117-126.

For a given partial solution, the partial inverse problem is to modify the coefficients such that there is a full solution containing the partial solution, while the full solution becomes optimal under new coefficients, and the total modification is minimum. In this paper, we show that the partial inverse assignment problem and the partial inverse minimum cut problem are NP-hard if there are bound constraints on the changes of coefficients.

Classification : 68Q25, 90B10, 90C27
Mots-clés : partial inverse assignment problem, partial inverse minimum cut problem, NP-hard 
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Yang, Xiaoguang. Complexity of partial inverse assignment problem and partial inverse cut problem. RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle, Tome 35 (2001) no. 1, pp. 117-126. http://www.numdam.org/item/RO_2001__35_1_117_0/

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