/* MFASP, Minimum Feedback Arc Set Problem */ /* Written in GNU MathProg by Andrew Makhorin */ /* The Minimum Feedback Arc Set Problem for a given directed graph G = (V, E), where V is a set of vertices and E is a set of arcs, is to find a minimal subset of arcs, which being removed from the graph make it acyclic. Reference: Garey, M.R., and Johnson, D.S. (1979), Computers and Intractability: A guide to the theory of NP-completeness [Graph Theory, Covering and Partitioning, Minimum Feedback Arc Set, GT9]. */ param n, integer, >= 0; /* number of vertices */ set V, default 1..n; /* set of vertices */ set E, within V cross V, default setof{i in V, j in V: i <> j and Uniform(0,1) <= 0.15} (i,j); /* set of arcs */ printf "Graph has %d vertices and %d arcs\n", card(V), card(E); var x{(i,j) in E}, binary; /* x[i,j] = 1 means that (i->j) is a feedback arc */ /* It is known that a digraph G = (V, E) is acyclic if and only if its vertices can be assigned numbers from 1 to |V| in such a way that k[i] + 1 <= k[j] for every arc (i->j) in E, where k[i] is a number assigned to vertex i. We may use this condition to require that the digraph G = (V, E \ E'), where E' is a subset of feedback arcs, is acyclic. */ var k{i in V}, >= 1, <= card(V); /* k[i] is a number assigned to vertex i */ s.t. r{(i,j) in E}: k[j] - k[i] >= 1 - card(V) * x[i,j]; /* note that x[i,j] = 1 leads to a redundant constraint */ minimize obj: sum{(i,j) in E} x[i,j]; /* the objective is to minimize the cardinality of a subset of feedback arcs */ solve; printf "Minimum feedback arc set:\n"; printf{(i,j) in E: x[i,j]} "%d %d\n", i, j; data; /* The optimal solution is 3 */ param n := 15; set E := 1 2, 2 3, 3 4, 3 8, 4 9, 5 1, 6 5, 7 5, 8 6, 8 7, 8 9, 9 10, 10 11, 10 14, 11 15, 12 7, 12 8, 12 13, 13 8, 13 12, 13 14, 14 9, 15 14; end;