Easy distributions for combinatorial optimization problems with probabilistic constraints

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 545-549

  Fortz, Bernard ^a   Poss, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Combinatorial optimization; Probabilistic constraint; Stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

BINARY VARIABLES; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; LINEAR CONSTRAINTS; PROBABILISTIC CONSTRAINTS; STRICTLY STABLE;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; LINEARIZATION; RANDOM VARIABLES; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 77958084059     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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