TY - JOUR A1 - Rehfeldt, Daniel A1 - Koch, Thorsten T1 - Combining NP-Hard Reduction Techniques and Strong Heuristics in an Exact Algorithm for the Maximum-Weight Connected Subgraph Problem T2 - SIAM Journal on Optimization N2 - Borne out of a surprising variety of practical applications, the maximum-weight connected subgraph problem has attracted considerable interest during the past years. This interest has not only led to notable research on theoretical properties, but has also brought about several (exact) solvers-with steadily increasing performance. Continuing along this path, the following article introduces several new algorithms such as reduction techniques and heuristics and describes their integration into an exact solver. The new methods are evaluated with respect to both their theoretical and practical properties. Notably, the new exact framework allows to solve common problem instances from the literature faster than all previous approaches. Moreover, one large-scale benchmark instance from the 11th DIMACS Challenge can be solved for the first time to optimality and the primal-dual gap for two other ones can be significantly reduced. Y1 - 2019 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-zib/frontdoor/index/index/docId/7086 VL - 29 IS - 1 SP - 369 EP - 398 PB - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ER -