An upper bound for the speedup of parallel best-bound branch-and-bound algorithms (Q1072940)

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An upper bound for the speedup of parallel best-bound branch-and-bound algorithms
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    An upper bound for the speedup of parallel best-bound branch-and-bound algorithms (English)
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    This paper derives an upper bound for the speedup obtainable by any parallel branch-and-bound algorithm using the best-bound search strategy. We confirm that parallel branch-and-bound can achieve nearly linear, or even super-linear, speedup under the appropriate conditions.
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    traveling salesman
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    upper bound
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    parallel branch-and-bound algorithm
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