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Decorous lower bounds for minimum linear arrangement

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>2011
<mark>Journal</mark>INFORMS Journal on Computing
Issue number1
Volume23
Number of pages15
Pages (from-to)26-40
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Minimum Linear Arrangement is a classical basic combinatorial optimization problem from the 1960s, which turns out to be extremely challenging in practice. In particular, for most of its benchmark instances, even the order of magnitude of the optimal solution value is unknown, as testified by the surveys on the problem that contain tables in which the best known solution value often has one more digit than the best known lower bound value. In this paper, we propose a linear-programming based approach to compute lower bounds on the optimum. This allows us, for the first time, to show that the best known solutions are indeed not far from optimal for most of the benchmark instances.