Minimization of an M-convex function

✍ Scribed by Akiyoshi Shioura

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 343 KB
• Volume: 84
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0166-218X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0166-218x(97)00140-6

✦ Synopsis

We study the minimization of an M-convex function introduced by Murota.

It is shown that any vector in the domain can be easily separated from a minimizer of the function. Based on this property, we develop a polynomial time algorithm.