Recoverable robust representatives selection problem under interval continuous budgeted uncertainty

Abstract

In this paper, the recoverable robust representative selection problem is considered, where uncertain second-stage costs are modeled using interval uncertainty with a continuous budget. While the variant under a discrete uncertainty budget is known to be NP-hard, we show that transitioning to a continuous budget fundamentally alters the computational complexity landscape. Specifically, by exploiting the structural properties of the problem under the continuous budget model, we design a strongly polynomial-time algorithm for the general case. Furthermore, we propose an even more efficient strongly polynomial-time algorithm for an important special case.