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Mixed 0-1 Programming by Lift-and-Project in a Branch-and-Cut Framework

Egon Balas, Sebastián Ceria, Gérard Cornuéjols

Management Science · 1996 · Volume 42 · Issue 9

DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.42.9.1229

Abstract

We investigate the computational issues that need to be addressed when incorporating general cutting planes for mixed 0-1 programs into a branch-and-cut framework. The cuts we use are of the lift-and-project variety. Some of the issues addressed have a theoretical answer, but others are of an experimental nature and are settled by comparing alternatives on a set of test problems. The resulting code is a robust solver for mixed 0-1 programs. We compare it with several existing codes. On a wide range of test problems it performs as well as, or better than, some of the best currently available mixed integer programming codes.

Keywords

integer programming, cutting planes, branch-and-bound, branch-and-cut

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