Tight Flow-Based Formulations for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem and Their Applications to some Scheduling Problems

This dissertation is devoted to the development of new flow-based formulations for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem (ATSP) and to the demonstration of their applicability in effectively solving some scheduling problems. The ATSP is commonly encountered in the areas of manufacturing plannin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tsai, Pei-Fang
Other Authors: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27863
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05232006-195259/