Lower bounds from state space relaxations for concave cost network flow problems

DOI10.1007/S10898-005-1657-YMaRDI QIDQ2494472zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dalila B. M. M. Fontes, Eleni Hadjiconstantinou, Nicos Christofides

Publication date 28 June 2006

Published in Journal of Global Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10898-005-1657-y

zbMATH Keywords

concave cost network flowsdynamic programminglower boundsstate space relaxation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Programming involving graphs or networks (90C35) Dynamic programming (90C39) Polyhedral combinatorics, branch-and-bound, branch-and-cut (90C57)

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