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Integer programming, a cornerstone of combinatorial optimisation, focuses on the selection of discrete decision variables to solve complex real‐world problems such as scheduling, network design and ...
Formulations of mathematical programs often require that some of the decision variables take only integer values. Consider the formulation You can follow the same steps to identify binary variables.
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Methods for NP-hard discrete optimization problems, including general methods like branch-and-bound and cutting planes, as well as special purpose branch-and-cut methods. Students will be able to ...
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This paper is written with three objectives in mind. First, to point out that the problem of grouping, where a larger number of elements n are combined into m mutually exclusive groups $(m < n)$ ...
https://doi.org/10.2307/2583984 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/2583984 Copy URL The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a real-world application of pure ...