Integrated airline schedule design and fleet assignment: Polyhedral analysis and benders' decomposition approach

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 500-513

  Sherali, Hanif D ^a   Bae, Ki Hwan ^a   Haouari, Mohamed ^b,c  

^a State University   (United States)

^b OZYEGIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Benders' decomposition; Fleet assignment; Flight scheduling; Integrated airline operations; Valid inequalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649358097     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1090.0368     Document Type: Article

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