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The following is the skeleton of a generic branch and bound algorithm for minimizing an arbitrary objective function f. [3] To obtain an actual algorithm from this, one requires a bounding function bound, that computes lower bounds of f on nodes of the search tree, as well as a problem-specific branching rule.
Branch and price is a branch and bound method in which at each node of the search tree, columns may be added to the linear programming relaxation (LP relaxation). At the start of the algorithm, sets of columns are excluded from the LP relaxation in order to reduce the computational and memory requirements and then columns are added back to the LP relaxation as needed.
Branch and cut [1] is a method of combinatorial optimization for solving integer linear programs (ILPs), that is, linear programming (LP) problems where some or all the unknowns are restricted to integer values. [2] Branch and cut involves running a branch and bound algorithm and using cutting planes to tighten
The branch and bound algorithm is a general method used to increase the efficiency of searches for near-optimal solutions of NP-hard problems first applied to phylogenetics in the early 1980s. [14] Branch and bound is particularly well suited to phylogenetic tree construction because it inherently requires dividing a problem into a tree ...
In discrete optimization, a special ordered set (SOS) is an ordered set of variables used as an additional way to specify integrality conditions in an optimization model. . Special order sets are basically a device or tool used in branch and bound methods for branching on sets of variables, rather than individual variables, as in ordinary mixed integer programm
An alternative to cost transfer algorithms is the algorithm PFC-MRDAC [7] which is a classical branch and bound algorithm that computes lower bound at each node of the search tree, that corresponds to an under-estimation of the cost of any solution that can be obtained from this node.
Greedy algorithm; Divide and conquer algorithm. Akra–Bazzi method; Dynamic programming; Branch and bound; Birthday attack, birthday paradox; Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm; Reduction to linear algebra; Sparsity; Weight function; Minimax algorithm. Alpha–beta pruning; Probabilistic method; Sieve methods; Analytic combinatorics; Symbolic ...
In Boolean algebra, Petrick's method [1] (also known as Petrick function [2] or branch-and-bound method) is a technique described by Stanley R. Petrick (1931–2006) [3] [4] in 1956 [5] [6] for determining all minimum sum-of-products solutions from a prime implicant chart. [7]