An efficient column-generation-based algorithm for solving a pickup-and-delivery problem

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1647-1655

  Venkateshan, Prahalad ^a   Mathur, Kamlesh ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Column generation; Pickup and delivery problems

Indexed keywords

BRANCH AND BOUNDS; COLUMN GENERATION; COMBINATORIAL EXPLOSION; PICKUP AND DELIVERY; PICKUP-AND-DELIVERY PROBLEMS; PROBLEM STRUCTURE;

PICKUPS; SUBROUTINES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 79955067464     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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