Column Generation

Guy Desaulniers

ISBN 10: 1441937994 / ISBN 13: 9781441937995

Published by Springer, Humana, 2010

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Column Generation is an insightful overview of the state of the art in integer programming column generation and its many applications. The volume begins with 'A Primer in Column Generation' which outlines the theory and ideas necessary to solve large-scale practical problems, illustrated with a variety of examples. Other chapters follow this introduction on 'Shortest Path Problems with Resource Constraints,' 'Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window,' 'Branch-and-Price Heuristics,' 'Cutting Stock Problems,' each dealing with methodological aspects of the field. Three chapters deal with transportation applications: 'Large-scale Models in the Airline Industry,' 'Robust Inventory Ship Routing by Column Generation,' and 'Ship Scheduling with Recurring Visits and Visit Separation Requirements.' Production is the focus of another three chapters: 'Combining Column Generation and Lagrangian Relaxation,' 'Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition for Job Shop Scheduling,' and 'Applying Column Generation to Machine Scheduling.' The final chapter by François Vanderbeck, 'Implementing Mixed Integer Column Generation,' reviews how to set-up the Dantzig-Wolfe reformulation, adapt standard MIP techniques to the column generation context (branching, preprocessing, primal heuristics), and deal with specific column generation issues (initialization, stabilization, column management strategies).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Column Generation
• Publisher: Springer, Humana
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441937994
• ISBN 13: 9781441937995
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 21D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 569 grams

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Synopsis

This book provides a survey overview of the state-of-the-art in integer programming column generation and its many applications, featuring chapters written by leading experts in the various methodological and application areas of Column Generation.