The latest release of GLPK has an out-of-kilter method for network problems, 
which includes the assignment problem.  That is probably a polynomial time 
algorithm (n*n*n?  I'm rusty on this aspect).  I haven't used this feature yet, 
and therefore I don't know how to turn it on.
-Marc 

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Hunsaker
Sent: Wed 8/19/2009 8:47 AM
To: Linna Li
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Help-glpk] time complexity in glpk



GLPK uses the simplex algorithm, which is generally fast in practice but
can take exponential time in the worst case (proven for several pivot
rules, anyway).  Also, in the presence of poorly scaled instances it is
possible for GLPK to not be able to solve an instance at all.

So there's no guarantee on the time it will take to solve.

Brady

Linna Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using glpk to solve the assignment problem. What is the time complexity
> for this? I haven't found any documents with this information. Thanks  a
> lot!
>
> Linna
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