Parallelization and aggregation of nested Benders decomposition

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 81, Issue , 1998, Pages 163-187

  Dempster, M A H ^a   Thompson, R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Dynamic stochastic programming; Linear programming; MIMD computers; Nested Benders decomposition; Parallel algorithms

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032378431     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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