Interior point methods for combinatorial optimization

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Authors:

John E. Mitchell
Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, NY 12180 USA.
mitchj@rpi.edu

Panos Pardalos
Center for Applied Optimization, ISE Department,
University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL 32611 USA.
pardalos@ufl.edu

Mauricio G. C. Resende
Information Sciences Research,
AT&T Labs Research,
Florham Park, NJ 07932 USA.
mgcr@research.att.com

November 1997

Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Combinatorial optimization
  3. Solution techniques
  4. Interior point methods for linear and network programming
  5. Branch and bound methods
  6. Branch and cut methods
  7. Nonconvex potential function minimization
  8. A lower bounding technique
  9. Semidefinite programming relaxations
  10. Concluding remarks
  11. References
To appear in the Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization, edited by D.-Z. Du and Panos Pardalos, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

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