Recovery of primal solutions when using subgradient optimization methods to solve Lagrangian duals of linear programs

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 105-113

  Sherali, Hanif D ^a   Choi, Gyunghyun ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Samsung SDS   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Deflected subgradient optimization; Lagrangian duality; Lagrangian relaxation; Linear programming; Primal recovery schemes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009734492     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6377(96)00019-3     Document Type: Article

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