Solving the Sum-of-Ratios Problem by an Interior-Point Method

Journal of Global Optimization

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 83-102

  Freund, Roland W ^a   Jarre, Florian ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convex subproblem; Fractional programming; Global optimum; Interior point method; Knapsack problem; NP completeness; Sum of ratios

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006866699     PISSN: 09255001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008316327038     Document Type: Article

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