Upper and lower bounds for the sales force deployment problem with explicit contiguity constraints

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2014.01.061zbMath1304.90033OpenAlexW2058823990MaRDI QIDQ2253998

Knut Haase, Sven Müller

Publication date: 4 February 2015

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.01.061

zbMATH Keywords

column generationcontiguitysemi-infinite programmingbranch-and-pricelarge scale optimizationsales force deployment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large-scale problems in mathematical programming (90C06) Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Semi-infinite programming (90C34)

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