Deterministic branch-and-bound on distributed memory machines

  • Kieran T. Herley
  • , Andrea Pietracaprina
  • , Geppino Pucci

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Abstract

The branch-and-bound problem involves determining the leaf of minimum cost in a cost-labelled, heap-ordered tree, subject to the constraint that only the root is known initially and that the children of each node are revealed only by visiting their parent. We present the first efficient deterministic algorithm to solve the branch-and-bound problem for a tree T of constant degree on a p-processor Distributed-Memory Machine. Let c* be the cost of the minimumcost leaf in T, and let n and h be the number of nodes and the height, respectively, of the subtree T* ⊆ T of nodes whose cost is at most c*. When accounting for both computation and communication costs, our algorithm runs in time O (n/p + h(max{p, lognlogp})2) for general values of n, and can be made to run in time O ((n/p + hlog4 p)log logp) for n polynomial in p. For large ranges of the relevant parameters, our algorithm is provably optimal or outperforms the well-known randomized strategy by Karp and Zhang.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationParallel and Distributed Processing - 11 th IPPS/SPDP 1999 Workshops Held in Conjunction with the 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium and 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Proceedings
EditorsJosé Rolim
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1085-1094
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540658319, 9783540658313
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1999
Event13th International Parallel Processing Symposium, IPPS 1999 Held in Conjunction with the 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, SPDP 1999 - San Juan, United States
Duration: 12 Apr 199916 Apr 1999

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1586
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Parallel Processing Symposium, IPPS 1999 Held in Conjunction with the 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, SPDP 1999
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Juan
Period12/04/9916/04/99

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