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 ...

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 ...

Mathematical programming discriminant analysis models must be normalised to prevent the generation of discriminant functions in which the variable coefficients and the constant term are zero. This ...

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 ...

Recall the linear programming problem presented in the "Introduction to Mathematical Programming" chapter. In that problem, a firm produces two products, chocolates and gumdrops, that are processed by ...

The 21st Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO XXI) took place online on June 8-10. The conference was preceded by an online Summer School on June 6-7. The conference ...

The following is a simple mixed integer programming problem. Details can be found in Example 3.8 in the "Examples" section. data; input _row_ $10. choco gumdr ichoco igumdr _type_ $ _rhs_; datalines; ...

The objective of the 3D-SCALO problem is to assign the given components to optimal mounting surfaces and position them at the best locations, while satisfying the requirements for (1) heat dissipation ...