Almost 20 years of combinatorial optimization for railway planning: From lagrangian relaxation to column generation

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Volumn 14, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-12

  Caprara, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Column generation; Integer linear programming formulations; Integer multicommodity flow; Lagrangian relaxation; Railway planning

Indexed keywords

COLUMN GENERATION; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING FORMULATION; LAGRANGIAN RELAXATION; MULTI-COMMODITY FLOW; RAILWAY PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84882960736     PISSN: 21906807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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