branch-and-bound technique
branch-and-bound technique
[¦branch ən ¦bau̇nd tek′nēk] (industrial engineering)
A technique in nonlinear programming in which all sets of feasible solutions are divided into subsets, and those having bounds inferior to others are rejected.
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In this case we use a
branch-and-bound technique based on the idea developed in [Lampert, 2008], as in Figure 4.
Applying
branch-and-bound technique to route choice set generation, Transportation Research Record 1985: 19-28.
A
branch-and-bound technique may be used for implementing the covering global optimization methods (Zilinskas 2008; Paulavicius and Zilinskas 2009) as well as combinatorial optimization algorithms (Zilinskas, A.
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