Column Generation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Desaulniers, Guy (Editor), Desrosiers, Jacques (Editor), Solomon, Marius M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computer mathematics.; Mathematical models.; Mathematical optimization.; Management science.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Optimization.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Operations Management.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• A Primer in Column Generation
• Shortest Path Problems with Resource Constraints
• Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
• Branch-and-Price Heuristics: A Case Study on the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows
• Cutting Stock Problems
• Large-Scale Models in the Airline Industry
• Robust Inventory Ship Routing by Column Generation
• Ship Scheduling with Recurring Visits and Visit Separation Requirements
• Combining Column Generation and Lagrangian Relaxation
• Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition for Job Shop Scheduling
• Applying Column Generation to Machine Scheduling
• Implementing Mixed Integer Column Generation.