Given a set N, a pairwise distance function d and an integer number m, the Dispersion Problems (DPs) require to extract from N a subset M of cardinality m, so as to optimize a suitable function of the distances between the elements in M. Different functions give rise to a whole family of...

Given an undirected graph and a collection of vertex subsets with suitable costs, we consider the problem of partitioning the graph into subgraphs of limited cost, splitting as little as possible the given subsets among different subgraphs. This problem originates from the organization of a...