Crew assignment via constraint programming: Integrating column generation and heuristic tree search

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 207-225

  Sellmann, Meinolf ^a   Zervoudakis, Kyriakos ^b   Stamatopoulos, Panagiotis ^b   Fahle, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Airline crew assignment; Constraint programming based column generation; Hybrid OR CP method; Set partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036441435     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021105422248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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