Efficient symmetry breaking formulations for the job grouping problem

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1132-1142

  Jans, Raf ^a   Desrosiers, Jacques ^a  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clustering problems; Job grouping; Mixed integer programming formulations; Symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

BRANCH-AND-BOUND ALGORITHMS; CLUSTERING PROBLEMS; COMMERCIAL SOLVERS; CPU TIME; DATA SETS; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; IDENTICAL MACHINES; INPUT DATAS; JOB GROUPING; LEXICOGRAPHIC ORDERING; LP RELAXATION; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMALITY; SYMMETRY BREAKING CONSTRAINTS; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; TOOL REQUIREMENTS;

ALGORITHMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84871810724     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2012.11.017     Document Type: Article

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