Abstract

Given a directed graph, the authors consider the problem of finding a rooted directed tree (or branching) satisfying given demands at all the nodes and capacity constraints on the arcs. Various integer programming formulations are compared, including flow and multicommodity flow formulations and two partitioning-type formulations involving directed subtrees. Computational results concerning an application to the design of a low voltage electricity network are given. For the class of problems considered, one of the partitioning formulations allows one to solve problems with up to 100 nodes and several hundred arcs.

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