Generation and presentation of nearly optimal solutions for mixed-integer linear programming, applied to a case in farming system design

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 425-438

  Makowski, David ^a,b   Hendrix, Eligius M T ^a   Van Ittersum, Martin K ^a   Rossing, Walter A H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

(Mixed) Integer linear programming; Agriculture; Branch and bound; Nearly optimal solution

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; DECISION THEORY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BRANCH-AND-BOUND ALGORITHMS; MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0035898998     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(00)00134-X     Document Type: Article

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