Combinatorial Optimization -- Eureka, You Shrink!

“Eureka — You Skrink!”.- “Eureka — You Shrink!”.- Submodular Functions, Matroids, and Certain Polyhedra.- Matching: A Well-Solved Class of Integer Linear Programs.- Theoretical Improvements in Algorithmic Efficiency for Network Flow Problems.- Connected Matchings.- Hajós’ Construction and Polytopes.- Algorithmic Characterization of Bipartite b-Matching and Matroid Intersection.- Solving Real-World ATSP Instances by Branch-and-Cut.- The Bundle Method for Hard Combinatorial Optimization Problems.- The One-Commodity Pickup-and-Delivery Travelling Salesman Problem.- Reconstructing a Simple Polytope from Its Graph.- An Augment-and-Branch-and-Cut Framework for Mixed 0-1 Programming.- A Procedure of Facet Composition for the Symmetric Traveling Salesman Polytope.- Constructing New Facets of the Consecutive Ones Polytope.- A Simplex-Based Algorithm for 0-1 Mixed Integer Programming.- Mixed-Integer Value Functions in Stochastic Programming.- Exact Algorithms for NP-Hard Problems: A Survey.

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