Abstract
The three-way table problem is to decide if there exists an l×m×n table satisfying given line sums, and find a table if yes. Recently, it was shown to be fixed-parameter tractable with parameters l,m. Here we extend this and show that the huge version of the problem, where the variable side n is encoded in binary, is also fixed-parameter tractable with parameters l,m. We also conclude that the huge multicommodity flow problem with a huge number of consumers is fixed-parameter tractable. One of our tools is a theorem about unimodular monoids which is of interest on its own right.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 207-214 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Computer and System Sciences |
Volume | 83 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Feb 2017 |
Keywords
- Bin packing
- Cutting stock
- Fixed-parameter tractable
- Integer Carathéodory
- Integer programming
- Multicommodity flow
- Multiway table
- Totally unimodular
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics