The GeoSteiner software package for computing Steiner trees in the plane: an updated computational study

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The GeoSteiner software package has for more than 10 years been the fastest (publicly available) program for computing exact solutions to Steiner tree problems in the plane. The computational study by Warme, Winter and Zachariasen, published in 2000, documented the performance of the GeoSteiner approach --- allowing the exact solution of Steiner tree problems with more than a thousand terminals. Since then, a number of algorithmic enhancements have improved the performance of the software package significantly. In this computational study we run the current code on the largest problem instances from the 2000-study, and on a number of larger problem instances. The computational study is performed using both the publicly available GeoSteiner 3.1 code base, and the commercial GeoSteiner 4.0 code base.
Original languageEnglish
Publication date2014
Number of pages30
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event11th DIMACS Implementation Challenge - ICERM, Providence, United States
Duration: 4 Dec 20145 Dec 2014
Conference number: 11

Conference

Conference11th DIMACS Implementation Challenge
Number11
LocationICERM
CountryUnited States
CityProvidence
Period04/12/201405/12/2014

    Research areas

  • Faculty of Science - Euclidean Steiner tree problem, rectilinear Steiner tree problem, fixed orientation Steiner tree problem, exact algorithm, computational study

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