A branch-price-and-cut algorithm for the inventory-routing problem

Transportation Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1060-1076

  Desaulniers, Guy ^a   Rakke, Jørgen G ^b   Coelho, Leandro C ^c  

^a GERAD   (Canada)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Branch price and cut; Capacity inequalities; Exact algorithm; Inventory routing; Labeling algorithm

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COSTS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

BRANCH PRICE AND CUT; CAPACITY INEQUALITIES; EXACT ALGORITHMS; INVENTORY ROUTING; LABELING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84984919714     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.2015.0635     Document Type: Article

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