The independent quadratic assignment problem: complexity and polynomially solvable special cases
摘要
In this paper, we study the independent quadratic assignment problem which is a variation of the well-known Koopmans–Beckman quadratic assignment problem. The problem is strongly NP-hard and is also hard to approximate. Some polynomially solvable special cases are identified along with a complete characterization of linearizable instances of the problem, the validity of which is shown to be verifiable in linear time. This improves the existing quadratic bound for this problem. Additional complexity results are also presented.