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Maximum shortest path interdiction problem by upgrading edges on trees under hamming distance

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We consider the maximum shortest path interdiction problem by upgrading edges on trees under Hamming distance (denoted by (MSPITH)), which has wide applications in transportation network, network war and terrorist network. The problem (MSPITH) aims to maximize the length of the shortest path from the root of a tree to all its leaves by upgrading edge weights such that the upgrade cost under sum-Hamming distance is upper-bounded by a given value. We show that the problem (MSPITH) under weighted sum-Hamming distance is NP-hard. We consider two cases of the problem (MSPITH) under unit sum-Hamming distance based on the number K of critical edges. We propose a greedy algorithm within \(O(n+l\log l)\) time when \(K=1\) and a dynamic programming algorithm within \(O(n(\log n+K^3))\) time when \(K>1\), where n and l are the numbers of nodes and leaves in a tree, respectively. Furthermore, we consider a minimum cost shortest path interdiction problem by upgrading edges on trees under unit Hamming distance, denoted by (MCSPITUH) and propose a binary search algorithm within \(O(n^4\log n)\) time, where a dynamic programming algorithm is executed in each iteration to solve its corresponding problem (MSPITH). Finally, we design numerical experiments to show the effectiveness of the algorithms.

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  1. School of Mathematics, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Qiao Zhang, Xiucui Guan & Hui Wang

  2. Center for Applied Optimization, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

  3. LATNA, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

    Panos M. Pardalos

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Research is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (11471073) and the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) for P. M. Pardalos.

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Zhang, Q., Guan, X., Wang, H. et al. Maximum shortest path interdiction problem by upgrading edges on trees under hamming distance. Optim Lett 15, 2661–2680 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-020-01687-9

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