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/* -*- mode: C++; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*-

 *

 * This file is a part of LEMON, a generic C++ optimization library.

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2003-2009

 * Egervary Jeno Kombinatorikus Optimalizalasi Kutatocsoport

 * (Egervary Research Group on Combinatorial Optimization, EGRES).

 *

 * Permission to use, modify and distribute this software is granted

 * provided that this copyright notice appears in all copies. For

 * precise terms see the accompanying LICENSE file.

 *

 * This software is provided "AS IS" with no warranty of any kind,

 * express or implied, and with no claim as to its suitability for any

 * purpose.

 *

 */

namespace lemon {

/**

@defgroup datas Data Structures

This group contains the several data structures implemented in LEMON.

*/

/**

@defgroup graphs Graph Structures

@ingroup datas

\brief Graph structures implemented in LEMON.

The implementation of combinatorial algorithms heavily relies on

efficient graph implementations. LEMON offers data structures which are

planned to be easily used in an experimental phase of implementation studies,

and thereafter the program code can be made efficient by small modifications.

The most efficient implementation of diverse applications require the

usage of different physical graph implementations. These differences

appear in the size of graph we require to handle, memory or time usage

limitations or in the set of operations through which the graph can be

accessed.  LEMON provides several physical graph structures to meet

the diverging requirements of the possible users.  In order to save on

running time or on memory usage, some structures may fail to provide

some graph features like arc/edge or node deletion.

Alteration of standard containers need a very limited number of

operations, these together satisfy the everyday requirements.

In the case of graph structures, different operations are needed which do

not alter the physical graph, but gives another view. If some nodes or

arcs have to be hidden or the reverse oriented graph have to be used, then

this is the case. It also may happen that in a flow implementation

the residual graph can be accessed by another algorithm, or a node-set

is to be shrunk for another algorithm.

LEMON also provides a variety of graphs for these requirements called

\ref graph_adaptors "graph adaptors". Adaptors cannot be used alone but only

in conjunction with other graph representations.

You are free to use the graph structure that fit your requirements

the best, most graph algorithms and auxiliary data structures can be used

with any graph structure.

<b>See also:</b> \ref graph_concepts "Graph Structure Concepts".

*/

/**

@defgroup graph_adaptors Adaptor Classes for Graphs

@ingroup graphs

\brief Adaptor classes for digraphs and graphs

This group contains several useful adaptor classes for digraphs and graphs.

The main parts of LEMON are the different graph structures, generic

graph algorithms, graph concepts, which couple them, and graph

adaptors. While the previous notions are more or less clear, the

latter one needs further explanation. Graph adaptors are graph classes

which serve for considering graph structures in different ways.

A short example makes this much clearer.  Suppose that we have an

instance \c g of a directed graph type, say ListDigraph and an algorithm

\code

template <typename Digraph>

int algorithm(const Digraph&);

\endcode

is needed to run on the reverse oriented graph.  It may be expensive

(in time or in memory usage) to copy \c g with the reversed

arcs.  In this case, an adaptor class is used, which (according

to LEMON \ref concepts::Digraph "digraph concepts") works as a digraph.

The adaptor uses the original digraph structure and digraph operations when

methods of the reversed oriented graph are called.  This means that the adaptor

have minor memory usage, and do not perform sophisticated algorithmic

actions.  The purpose of it is to give a tool for the cases when a

graph have to be used in a specific alteration.  If this alteration is

obtained by a usual construction like filtering the node or the arc set or

considering a new orientation, then an adaptor is worthwhile to use.

To come back to the reverse oriented graph, in this situation

\code

template<typename Digraph> class ReverseDigraph;

\endcode

template class can be used. The code looks as follows

\code

ListDigraph g;

ReverseDigraph<ListDigraph> rg(g);

int result = algorithm(rg);

\endcode

During running the algorithm, the original digraph \c g is untouched.

This techniques give rise to an elegant code, and based on stable

graph adaptors, complex algorithms can be implemented easily.

In flow, circulation and matching problems, the residual

graph is of particular importance. Combining an adaptor implementing

this with shortest path algorithms or minimum mean cycle algorithms,

a range of weighted and cardinality optimization algorithms can be

obtained. For other examples, the interested user is referred to the

detailed documentation of particular adaptors.

The behavior of graph adaptors can be very different. Some of them keep

capabilities of the original graph while in other cases this would be

meaningless. This means that the concepts that they meet depend

on the graph adaptor, and the wrapped graph.

For example, if an arc of a reversed digraph is deleted, this is carried

out by deleting the corresponding arc of the original digraph, thus the

adaptor modifies the original digraph.

However in case of a residual digraph, this operation has no sense.

Let us stand one more example here to simplify your work.

ReverseDigraph has constructor

\code

ReverseDigraph(Digraph& digraph);

\endcode

This means that in a situation, when a <tt>const %ListDigraph&</tt>

reference to a graph is given, then it have to be instantiated with

<tt>Digraph=const %ListDigraph</tt>.

\code

int algorithm1(const ListDigraph& g) {

  ReverseDigraph<const ListDigraph> rg(g);

  return algorithm2(rg);

}

\endcode

*/

/**

@defgroup maps Maps

@ingroup datas

\brief Map structures implemented in LEMON.

This group contains the map structures implemented in LEMON.

LEMON provides several special purpose maps and map adaptors that e.g. combine

new maps from existing ones.

<b>See also:</b> \ref map_concepts "Map Concepts".

*/

/**

@defgroup graph_maps Graph Maps

@ingroup maps

\brief Special graph-related maps.

This group contains maps that are specifically designed to assign

values to the nodes and arcs/edges of graphs.

If you are looking for the standard graph maps (\c NodeMap, \c ArcMap,

\c EdgeMap), see the \ref graph_concepts "Graph Structure Concepts".

*/

/**

\defgroup map_adaptors Map Adaptors

\ingroup maps

\brief Tools to create new maps from existing ones

This group contains map adaptors that are used to create "implicit"

maps from other maps.

Most of them are \ref concepts::ReadMap "read-only maps".

They can make arithmetic and logical operations between one or two maps

(negation, shifting, addition, multiplication, logical 'and', 'or',

'not' etc.) or e.g. convert a map to another one of different Value type.

The typical usage of this classes is passing implicit maps to

algorithms.  If a function type algorithm is called then the function

type map adaptors can be used comfortable. For example let's see the

usage of map adaptors with the \c graphToEps() function.

\code

  Color nodeColor(int deg) {

    if (deg >= 2) {

      return Color(0.5, 0.0, 0.5);

    } else if (deg == 1) {

      return Color(1.0, 0.5, 1.0);

    } else {

      return Color(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);

    }

  }

  Digraph::NodeMap<int> degree_map(graph);

  graphToEps(graph, "graph.eps")

    .coords(coords).scaleToA4().undirected()

    .nodeColors(composeMap(functorToMap(nodeColor), degree_map))

    .run();

\endcode

The \c functorToMap() function makes an \c int to \c Color map from the

\c nodeColor() function. The \c composeMap() compose the \c degree_map

and the previously created map. The composed map is a proper function to

get the color of each node.

The usage with class type algorithms is little bit harder. In this

case the function type map adaptors can not be used, because the

function map adaptors give back temporary objects.

\code

  Digraph graph;

  typedef Digraph::ArcMap<double> DoubleArcMap;

  DoubleArcMap length(graph);

  DoubleArcMap speed(graph);

  typedef DivMap<DoubleArcMap, DoubleArcMap> TimeMap;

  TimeMap time(length, speed);

  Dijkstra<Digraph, TimeMap> dijkstra(graph, time);

  dijkstra.run(source, target);

\endcode

We have a length map and a maximum speed map on the arcs of a digraph.

The minimum time to pass the arc can be calculated as the division of

the two maps which can be done implicitly with the \c DivMap template

class. We use the implicit minimum time map as the length map of the

\c Dijkstra algorithm.

*/

/**

@defgroup paths Path Structures

@ingroup datas

\brief %Path structures implemented in LEMON.

This group contains the path structures implemented in LEMON.

LEMON provides flexible data structures to work with paths.

All of them have similar interfaces and they can be copied easily with

assignment operators and copy constructors. This makes it easy and

efficient to have e.g. the Dijkstra algorithm to store its result in

any kind of path structure.

\sa \ref concepts::Path "Path concept"

*/

/**

@defgroup heaps Heap Structures

@ingroup datas

\brief %Heap structures implemented in LEMON.

This group contains the heap structures implemented in LEMON.

LEMON provides several heap classes. They are efficient implementations

of the abstract data type \e priority \e queue. They store items with

specified values called \e priorities in such a way that finding and

removing the item with minimum priority are efficient.

The basic operations are adding and erasing items, changing the priority

of an item, etc.

Heaps are crucial in several algorithms, such as Dijkstra and Prim.

The heap implementations have the same interface, thus any of them can be

used easily in such algorithms.

\sa \ref concepts::Heap "Heap concept"

*/

/**

@defgroup matrices Matrices

@ingroup datas

\brief Two dimensional data storages implemented in LEMON.

This group contains two dimensional data storages implemented in LEMON.

*/

/**

@defgroup auxdat Auxiliary Data Structures

@ingroup datas

\brief Auxiliary data structures implemented in LEMON.

This group contains some data structures implemented in LEMON in

order to make it easier to implement combinatorial algorithms.

*/

/**

@defgroup geomdat Geometric Data Structures

@ingroup auxdat

\brief Geometric data structures implemented in LEMON.

This group contains geometric data structures implemented in LEMON.

 - \ref lemon::dim2::Point "dim2::Point" implements a two dimensional

   vector with the usual operations.

 - \ref lemon::dim2::Box "dim2::Box" can be used to determine the

   rectangular bounding box of a set of \ref lemon::dim2::Point

   "dim2::Point"'s.

*/

/**

@defgroup matrices Matrices

@ingroup auxdat

\brief Two dimensional data storages implemented in LEMON.

This group contains two dimensional data storages implemented in LEMON.

*/

/**

@defgroup algs Algorithms

\brief This group contains the several algorithms

implemented in LEMON.

This group contains the several algorithms

implemented in LEMON.

*/

/**

@defgroup search Graph Search

@ingroup algs

\brief Common graph search algorithms.

This group contains the common graph search algorithms, namely

*/

/**

@defgroup shortest_path Shortest Path Algorithms

@ingroup algs

\brief Algorithms for finding shortest paths.

 - \ref Dijkstra algorithm for finding shortest paths from a source node

   when all arc lengths are non-negative.

 - \ref BellmanFord "Bellman-Ford" algorithm for finding shortest paths

   from a source node when arc lenghts can be either positive or negative,

   but the digraph should not contain directed cycles with negative total

   length.

 - \ref FloydWarshall "Floyd-Warshall" and \ref Johnson "Johnson" algorithms

   for solving the \e all-pairs \e shortest \e paths \e problem when arc

   lenghts can be either positive or negative, but the digraph should

   not contain directed cycles with negative total length.

 - \ref Suurballe A successive shortest path algorithm for finding

   arc-disjoint paths between two nodes having minimum total length.

*/

/**

@defgroup spantree Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithms

@ingroup algs

\brief Algorithms for finding minimum cost spanning trees and arborescences.

This group contains the algorithms for finding minimum cost spanning

*/

/**

@defgroup max_flow Maximum Flow Algorithms

@ingroup algs

\brief Algorithms for finding maximum flows.

This group contains the algorithms for finding maximum flows and

The \e maximum \e flow \e problem is to find a flow of maximum value between

a single source and a single target. Formally, there is a \f$G=(V,A)\f$

digraph, a \f$cap: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}^+_0\f$ capacity function and

\f$s, t \in V\f$ source and target nodes.

A maximum flow is an \f$f: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}^+_0\f$ solution of the

following optimization problem.

\f[ \max\sum_{sv\in A} f(sv) - \sum_{vs\in A} f(vs) \f]

\f[ \sum_{uv\in A} f(uv) = \sum_{vu\in A} f(vu)

    \quad \forall u\in V\setminus\{s,t\} \f]

\f[ 0 \leq f(uv) \leq cap(uv) \quad \forall uv\in A \f]

LEMON contains several algorithms for solving maximum flow problems:

fastest method for computing a maximum flow. All implementations

also provide functions to query the minimum cut, which is the dual

problem of maximum flow.

\ref Circulation is a preflow push-relabel algorithm implemented directly 

for finding feasible circulations, which is a somewhat different problem,

but it is strongly related to maximum flow.

For more information, see \ref Circulation.

*/

/**

@defgroup min_cost_flow_algs Minimum Cost Flow Algorithms

@ingroup algs

\brief Algorithms for finding minimum cost flows and circulations.

This group contains the algorithms for finding minimum cost flows and

LEMON contains several algorithms for this problem.

 - \ref NetworkSimplex Primal Network Simplex algorithm with various

 - \ref CostScaling Push-Relabel and Augment-Relabel algorithms based on

 - \ref CapacityScaling Successive Shortest %Path algorithm with optional

In general NetworkSimplex is the most efficient implementation,

but in special cases other algorithms could be faster.

For example, if the total supply and/or capacities are rather small,

CapacityScaling is usually the fastest algorithm (without effective scaling).

*/

/**

@defgroup min_cut Minimum Cut Algorithms

@ingroup algs

\brief Algorithms for finding minimum cut in graphs.

This group contains the algorithms for finding minimum cut in graphs.

The \e minimum \e cut \e problem is to find a non-empty and non-complete

\f$X\f$ subset of the nodes with minimum overall capacity on

outgoing arcs. Formally, there is a \f$G=(V,A)\f$ digraph, a

\f$cap: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}^+_0\f$ capacity function. The minimum

cut is the \f$X\f$ solution of the next optimization problem:

\f[ \min_{X \subset V, X\not\in \{\emptyset, V\}}

    \sum_{uv\in A: u\in X, v\not\in X}cap(uv) \f]

LEMON contains several algorithms related to minimum cut problems:

- \ref HaoOrlin "Hao-Orlin algorithm" for calculating minimum cut

  in directed graphs.

- \ref NagamochiIbaraki "Nagamochi-Ibaraki algorithm" for

  calculating minimum cut in undirected graphs.

- \ref GomoryHu "Gomory-Hu tree computation" for calculating

  all-pairs minimum cut in undirected graphs.

If you want to find minimum cut just between two distinict nodes,

see the \ref max_flow "maximum flow problem".

*/

/**

@defgroup matching Matching Algorithms

@ingroup algs

\brief Algorithms for finding matchings in graphs and bipartite graphs.

This group contains the algorithms for calculating

matchings in graphs and bipartite graphs. The general matching problem is

finding a subset of the edges for which each node has at most one incident

edge.

There are several different algorithms for calculate matchings in

graphs.  The matching problems in bipartite graphs are generally

easier than in general graphs. The goal of the matching optimization

can be finding maximum cardinality, maximum weight or minimum cost

matching. The search can be constrained to find perfect or

maximum cardinality matching.

The matching algorithms implemented in LEMON:

- \ref MaxBipartiteMatching Hopcroft-Karp augmenting path algorithm

  for calculating maximum cardinality matching in bipartite graphs.

- \ref PrBipartiteMatching Push-relabel algorithm

  for calculating maximum cardinality matching in bipartite graphs.

- \ref MaxWeightedBipartiteMatching

  Successive shortest path algorithm for calculating maximum weighted

  matching and maximum weighted bipartite matching in bipartite graphs.

- \ref MinCostMaxBipartiteMatching

  Successive shortest path algorithm for calculating minimum cost maximum

  matching in bipartite graphs.

- \ref MaxMatching Edmond's blossom shrinking algorithm for calculating

  maximum cardinality matching in general graphs.

- \ref MaxWeightedMatching Edmond's blossom shrinking algorithm for calculating

  maximum weighted matching in general graphs.

- \ref MaxWeightedPerfectMatching

  Edmond's blossom shrinking algorithm for calculating maximum weighted

  perfect matching in general graphs.

\image html bipartite_matching.png

\image latex bipartite_matching.eps "Bipartite Matching" width=\textwidth

*/

/**

@defgroup graph_properties Connectivity and Other Graph Properties

@ingroup algs

\brief Algorithms for discovering the graph properties

This group contains the algorithms for discovering the graph properties

like connectivity, bipartiteness, euler property, simplicity etc.

\image html connected_components.png

\image latex connected_components.eps "Connected components" width=\textwidth

*/

/**

@defgroup planar Planarity Embedding and Drawing

@ingroup algs

\brief Algorithms for planarity checking, embedding and drawing

This group contains the algorithms for planarity checking,

embedding and drawing.

\image html planar.png

\image latex planar.eps "Plane graph" width=\textwidth

*/

/**

@defgroup approx Approximation Algorithms

@ingroup algs

\brief Approximation algorithms.

This group contains the approximation and heuristic algorithms

implemented in LEMON.

*/

/**

@defgroup auxalg Auxiliary Algorithms

@ingroup algs

\brief Auxiliary algorithms implemented in LEMON.

This group contains some algorithms implemented in LEMON

in order to make it easier to implement complex algorithms.

*/

/**

@defgroup gen_opt_group General Optimization Tools

\brief This group contains some general optimization frameworks

implemented in LEMON.

This group contains some general optimization frameworks

implemented in LEMON.

*/

/**

@ingroup gen_opt_group

*/

/**

@defgroup lp_utils Tools for Lp and Mip Solvers

@ingroup lp_group

\brief Helper tools to the Lp and Mip solvers.

This group adds some helper tools to general optimization framework

implemented in LEMON.

*/

/**

@defgroup metah Metaheuristics

@ingroup gen_opt_group

\brief Metaheuristics for LEMON library.

This group contains some metaheuristic optimization tools.

*/

/**

@defgroup utils Tools and Utilities

\brief Tools and utilities for programming in LEMON

Tools and utilities for programming in LEMON.

*/

/**

@defgroup gutils Basic Graph Utilities

@ingroup utils

\brief Simple basic graph utilities.

This group contains some simple basic graph utilities.

*/

/**

@defgroup misc Miscellaneous Tools

@ingroup utils

\brief Tools for development, debugging and testing.

This group contains several useful tools for development,

debugging and testing.

*/

/**

@defgroup timecount Time Measuring and Counting

@ingroup misc

\brief Simple tools for measuring the performance of algorithms.

This group contains simple tools for measuring the performance

of algorithms.

*/

/**

@defgroup exceptions Exceptions

@ingroup utils

\brief Exceptions defined in LEMON.

This group contains the exceptions defined in LEMON.

*/

/**

@defgroup io_group Input-Output

\brief Graph Input-Output methods

This group contains the tools for importing and exporting graphs

and graph related data. Now it supports the \ref lgf-format

"LEMON Graph Format", the \c DIMACS format and the encapsulated

postscript (EPS) format.

*/

/**

@defgroup lemon_io LEMON Graph Format

@ingroup io_group

\brief Reading and writing LEMON Graph Format.

This group contains methods for reading and writing

\ref lgf-format "LEMON Graph Format".

*/

/**

@defgroup eps_io Postscript Exporting

@ingroup io_group

\brief General \c EPS drawer and graph exporter

This group contains general \c EPS drawing methods and special

graph exporting tools.

*/

/**

@defgroup dimacs_group DIMACS Format

@ingroup io_group

\brief Read and write files in DIMACS format

Tools to read a digraph from or write it to a file in DIMACS format data.

*/

/**

@defgroup nauty_group NAUTY Format

@ingroup io_group

\brief Read \e Nauty format

Tool to read graphs from \e Nauty format data.

*/

/**

@defgroup concept Concepts

\brief Skeleton classes and concept checking classes

This group contains the data/algorithm skeletons and concept checking

classes implemented in LEMON.

The purpose of the classes in this group is fourfold.

- These classes contain the documentations of the %concepts. In order

  to avoid document multiplications, an implementation of a concept

  simply refers to the corresponding concept class.

- These classes declare every functions, <tt>typedef</tt>s etc. an

  implementation of the %concepts should provide, however completely

  without implementations and real data structures behind the

  interface. On the other hand they should provide nothing else. All

  the algorithms working on a data structure meeting a certain concept

  should compile with these classes. (Though it will not run properly,

  of course.) In this way it is easily to check if an algorithm

  doesn't use any extra feature of a certain implementation.

- The concept descriptor classes also provide a <em>checker class</em>

  that makes it possible to check whether a certain implementation of a

  concept indeed provides all the required features.

- Finally, They can serve as a skeleton of a new implementation of a concept.

*/

/**

@defgroup graph_concepts Graph Structure Concepts

@ingroup concept

\brief Skeleton and concept checking classes for graph structures

This group contains the skeletons and concept checking classes of

graph structures.

*/

/**

@defgroup map_concepts Map Concepts

@ingroup concept

\brief Skeleton and concept checking classes for maps

This group contains the skeletons and concept checking classes of maps.

*/

/**

@defgroup tools Standalone Utility Applications

Some utility applications are listed here.

The standard compilation procedure (<tt>./configure;make</tt>) will compile

them, as well.

*/

/**

\anchor demoprograms

@defgroup demos Demo Programs

Some demo programs are listed here. Their full source codes can be found in

the \c demo subdirectory of the source tree.

In order to compile them, use the <tt>make demo</tt> or the

<tt>make check</tt> commands.

*/

}

/* -*- mode: C++; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*-

 *

 * This file is a part of LEMON, a generic C++ optimization library.

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2003-2009

 * Egervary Jeno Kombinatorikus Optimalizalasi Kutatocsoport

 * (Egervary Research Group on Combinatorial Optimization, EGRES).

 *

 * Permission to use, modify and distribute this software is granted

 * provided that this copyright notice appears in all copies. For

 * precise terms see the accompanying LICENSE file.

 *

 * This software is provided "AS IS" with no warranty of any kind,

 * express or implied, and with no claim as to its suitability for any

 * purpose.

 *

 */

/**

\mainpage LEMON Documentation

\section intro Introduction

<b>

LEMON is an <a class="el" href="http://opensource.org/">open&nbsp;source</a>

project.

You are free to use it in your commercial or

non-commercial applications under very permissive

\ref license "license terms".

</b>

If you would like to get to know the library, see

<a class="el" href="http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/pub/tutorial/">LEMON Tutorial</a>.

If you know what you are looking for, then try to find it under the

<a class="el" href="modules.html">Modules</a> section.

If you are a user of the old (0.x) series of LEMON, please check out the

\ref migration "Migration Guide" for the backward incompatibilities.

*/

/* -*- mode: C++; indent-tabs-mode: nil; -*-

 *

 * This file is a part of LEMON, a generic C++ optimization library.

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2003-2009

 * Egervary Jeno Kombinatorikus Optimalizalasi Kutatocsoport

 * (Egervary Research Group on Combinatorial Optimization, EGRES).

 *

 * Permission to use, modify and distribute this software is granted

 * provided that this copyright notice appears in all copies. For

 * precise terms see the accompanying LICENSE file.

 *

 * This software is provided "AS IS" with no warranty of any kind,

 * express or implied, and with no claim as to its suitability for any

 * purpose.

 *

 */

namespace lemon {

/**

\page min_cost_flow Minimum Cost Flow Problem

\section mcf_def Definition (GEQ form)

The \e minimum \e cost \e flow \e problem is to find a feasible flow of

minimum total cost from a set of supply nodes to a set of demand nodes

in a network with capacity constraints (lower and upper bounds)

Formally, let \f$G=(V,A)\f$ be a digraph, \f$lower: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}\f$,

\f$upper: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}\cup\{+\infty\}\f$ denote the lower and

upper bounds for the flow values on the arcs, for which

\f$lower(uv) \leq upper(uv)\f$ must hold for all \f$uv\in A\f$,

\f$cost: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}\f$ denotes the cost per unit flow

on the arcs and \f$sup: V\rightarrow\mathbf{R}\f$ denotes the

signed supply values of the nodes.

If \f$sup(u)>0\f$, then \f$u\f$ is a supply node with \f$sup(u)\f$

supply, if \f$sup(u)<0\f$, then \f$u\f$ is a demand node with

\f$-sup(u)\f$ demand.

A minimum cost flow is an \f$f: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}\f$ solution

of the following optimization problem.

\f[ \min\sum_{uv\in A} f(uv) \cdot cost(uv) \f]

\f[ \sum_{uv\in A} f(uv) - \sum_{vu\in A} f(vu) \geq

    sup(u) \quad \forall u\in V \f]

\f[ lower(uv) \leq f(uv) \leq upper(uv) \quad \forall uv\in A \f]

The sum of the supply values, i.e. \f$\sum_{u\in V} sup(u)\f$ must be

zero or negative in order to have a feasible solution (since the sum

of the expressions on the left-hand side of the inequalities is zero).

It means that the total demand must be greater or equal to the total

supply and all the supplies have to be carried out from the supply nodes,

but there could be demands that are not satisfied.

If \f$\sum_{u\in V} sup(u)\f$ is zero, then all the supply/demand

constraints have to be satisfied with equality, i.e. all demands

have to be satisfied and all supplies have to be used.

\section mcf_algs Algorithms

LEMON contains several algorithms for solving this problem, for more

information see \ref min_cost_flow_algs "Minimum Cost Flow Algorithms".

A feasible solution for this problem can be found using \ref Circulation.

\section mcf_dual Dual Solution

The dual solution of the minimum cost flow problem is represented by

node potentials \f$\pi: V\rightarrow\mathbf{R}\f$.

An \f$f: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}\f$ primal feasible solution is optimal

if and only if for some \f$\pi: V\rightarrow\mathbf{R}\f$ node potentials

the following \e complementary \e slackness optimality conditions hold.

 - For all \f$uv\in A\f$ arcs:

   - if \f$cost^\pi(uv)>0\f$, then \f$f(uv)=lower(uv)\f$;

   - if \f$lower(uv)<f(uv)<upper(uv)\f$, then \f$cost^\pi(uv)=0\f$;

   - if \f$cost^\pi(uv)<0\f$, then \f$f(uv)=upper(uv)\f$.

 - For all \f$u\in V\f$ nodes:

   - \f$\pi(u)<=0\f$;

   - if \f$\sum_{uv\in A} f(uv) - \sum_{vu\in A} f(vu) \neq sup(u)\f$,

     then \f$\pi(u)=0\f$.

Here \f$cost^\pi(uv)\f$ denotes the \e reduced \e cost of the arc

\f$uv\in A\f$ with respect to the potential function \f$\pi\f$, i.e.

\f[ cost^\pi(uv) = cost(uv) + \pi(u) - \pi(v).\f]

All algorithms provide dual solution (node potentials), as well,

if an optimal flow is found.

\section mcf_eq Equality Form

The above \ref mcf_def "definition" is actually more general than the

usual formulation of the minimum cost flow problem, in which strict

equalities are required in the supply/demand contraints.

\f[ \min\sum_{uv\in A} f(uv) \cdot cost(uv) \f]

\f[ \sum_{uv\in A} f(uv) - \sum_{vu\in A} f(vu) =

    sup(u) \quad \forall u\in V \f]

\f[ lower(uv) \leq f(uv) \leq upper(uv) \quad \forall uv\in A \f]

However if the sum of the supply values is zero, then these two problems

are equivalent.

The \ref min_cost_flow_algs "algorithms" in LEMON support the general

form, so if you need the equality form, you have to ensure this additional

contraint manually.

\section mcf_leq Opposite Inequalites (LEQ Form)

Another possible definition of the minimum cost flow problem is

when there are <em>"less or equal"</em> (LEQ) supply/demand constraints,

instead of the <em>"greater or equal"</em> (GEQ) constraints.

\f[ \min\sum_{uv\in A} f(uv) \cdot cost(uv) \f]

\f[ \sum_{uv\in A} f(uv) - \sum_{vu\in A} f(vu) \leq

    sup(u) \quad \forall u\in V \f]

\f[ lower(uv) \leq f(uv) \leq upper(uv) \quad \forall uv\in A \f]

It means that the total demand must be less or equal to the 

total supply (i.e. \f$\sum_{u\in V} sup(u)\f$ must be zero or

positive) and all the demands have to be satisfied, but there

could be supplies that are not carried out from the supply

nodes.

The equality form is also a special case of this form, of course.

You could easily transform this case to the \ref mcf_def "GEQ form"

of the problem by reversing the direction of the arcs and taking the

negative of the supply values (e.g. using \ref ReverseDigraph and

\ref NegMap adaptors).

However \ref NetworkSimplex algorithm also supports this form directly

for the sake of convenience.

Note that the optimality conditions for this supply constraint type are

slightly differ from the conditions that are discussed for the GEQ form,

namely the potentials have to be non-negative instead of non-positive.

An \f$f: A\rightarrow\mathbf{R}\f$ feasible solution of this problem

is optimal if and only if for some \f$\pi: V\rightarrow\mathbf{R}\f$

node potentials the following conditions hold.

 - For all \f$uv\in A\f$ arcs:

   - if \f$cost^\pi(uv)>0\f$, then \f$f(uv)=lower(uv)\f$;

   - if \f$lower(uv)<f(uv)<upper(uv)\f$, then \f$cost^\pi(uv)=0\f$;

   - if \f$cost^\pi(uv)<0\f$, then \f$f(uv)=upper(uv)\f$.

 - For all \f$u\in V\f$ nodes:

   - \f$\pi(u)>=0\f$;

   - if \f$\sum_{uv\in A} f(uv) - \sum_{vu\in A} f(vu) \neq sup(u)\f$,

     then \f$\pi(u)=0\f$.

*/

}

%%%%% Defining LEMON %%%%%

@misc{lemon,

  key =          {LEMON},

  title =        {{LEMON} -- {L}ibrary for {E}fficient {M}odeling and

                  {O}ptimization in {N}etworks},

  howpublished = {\url{http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/}},

  year =         2009

}

@misc{egres,

  key =          {EGRES},

  title =        {{EGRES} -- {E}gerv{\'a}ry {R}esearch {G}roup on

                  {C}ombinatorial {O}ptimization},

  url =          {http://www.cs.elte.hu/egres/}

}

@misc{coinor,

  key =          {COIN-OR},

  title =        {{COIN-OR} -- {C}omputational {I}nfrastructure for

                  {O}perations {R}esearch},

  url =          {http://www.coin-or.org/}

}

%%%%% Other libraries %%%%%%

@misc{boost,

  key =          {Boost},

  title =        {{B}oost {C++} {L}ibraries},

  url =          {http://www.boost.org/}

}

@book{bglbook,

  author =       {Jeremy G. Siek and Lee-Quan Lee and Andrew

                  Lumsdaine},

  title =        {The Boost Graph Library: User Guide and Reference

                  Manual},

  publisher =    {Addison-Wesley},

  year =         2002

}

@misc{leda,

  key =          {LEDA},

  title =        {{LEDA} -- {L}ibrary of {E}fficient {D}ata {T}ypes and

                  {A}lgorithms},

  url =          {http://www.algorithmic-solutions.com/}

}

@book{ledabook,

  author =       {Kurt Mehlhorn and Stefan N{\"a}her},

  title =        {{LEDA}: {A} platform for combinatorial and geometric

                  computing},

  isbn =         {0-521-56329-1},

  publisher =    {Cambridge University Press},

  address =      {New York, NY, USA},

  year =         1999

}

%%%%% Tools that LEMON depends on %%%%%

@misc{cmake,

  key =          {CMake},

  title =        {{CMake} -- {C}ross {P}latform {M}ake},

  url =          {http://www.cmake.org/}

}

@misc{doxygen,

  key =          {Doxygen},

  title =        {{Doxygen} -- {S}ource code documentation generator

                  tool},

  url =          {http://www.doxygen.org/}

}

%%%%% LP/MIP libraries %%%%%

@misc{glpk,

  key =          {GLPK},

  title =        {{GLPK} -- {GNU} {L}inear {P}rogramming {K}it},

  url =          {http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/}

}

@misc{clp,

  key =          {Clp},

  title =        {{Clp} -- {Coin-Or} {L}inear {P}rogramming},

  url =          {http://projects.coin-or.org/Clp/}

}

@misc{cbc,

  key =          {Cbc},

  title =        {{Cbc} -- {Coin-Or} {B}ranch and {C}ut},

  url =          {http://projects.coin-or.org/Cbc/}

}

@misc{cplex,

  key =          {CPLEX},

  title =        {{ILOG} {CPLEX}},

  url =          {http://www.ilog.com/}

}

@misc{soplex,

  key =          {SoPlex},

  title =        {{SoPlex} -- {T}he {S}equential {O}bject-{O}riented

                  {S}implex},

  url =          {http://soplex.zib.de/}

}

%%%%% General books %%%%%

@book{amo93networkflows,

  author =       {Ravindra K. Ahuja and Thomas L. Magnanti and James

                  B. Orlin},

  title =        {Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications},

  publisher =    {Prentice-Hall, Inc.},

  year =         1993,

  month =        feb,

  isbn =         {978-0136175490}

}

@book{schrijver03combinatorial,

  author =       {Alexander Schrijver},

  title =        {Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and Efficiency},

  publisher =    {Springer-Verlag},

  year =         2003,

  isbn =         {978-3540443896}

}