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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF8305</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1997-8305</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>The use of special graphs for obtaining lower bounds in the geometric quadratic assignment problem</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Palubeckis</surname><given-names>Gintaras</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:gintaras@soften.ktu.lt">gintaras@soften.ktu.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Kaunas University of Technology, Studentų 50, 3031 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>1997</year></pub-date><volume>8</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>377</fpage><lpage>400</lpage><abstract><p>In this paper we define a class of edge-weighted graphs having nonnegatively valued bisections. We show experimentally that complete such graphs with more than three vertices and also some special graphs with only positive edges can be applied to improve the existing lower bounds for a version of the quadratic assignment problem, namely with a matrix composed of rectilinear distances between points in the Euclidean space.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>combinatorial optimization</kwd><kwd>quadratic assignment problem</kwd><kwd>lower bounds</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>