On the trade-off between staff-decomposed and activity-decomposed column generation for a staff scheduling problem

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 143-166

  Beliën, Jeroen ^a   Demeulemeester, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Branch and price; Decomposition; Multi commodity flow; Set partitioning; Staff scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548201359     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-007-0220-2     Document Type: Article

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