Solving parallel machine scheduling problems by column generation

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 78-92

  Chen, Zhi Long ^a   Powell, Warren B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Column generation; Dantzig Wolfe decomposition; Parallel machine scheduling; Set partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006715283     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.11.1.78     Document Type: Article

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