Inverse Minimum Cut Problem with Lower and Upper Bounds

Abstract

The inverse minimum cut problem is one of the classical inverse optimization researches. In this paper, the inverse minimum cut with a lower and upper bounds problem is considered. The problem is to change both, the lower and upper bounds on arcs so that a given feasible cut becomes a minimum cut in the modified network and the distance between the initial vector of bounds and the modified one is minimized. A strongly polynomial algorithm to solve the problem under l1 norm is developed.

Keywords

• minimum cut
• maximum flow
• inverse optimization