Stabilized Column Generation for the Temporal Knapsack Problem using Dual- Optimal Inequalities

Timo Gschwind () and Stefan Irnich ()
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Timo Gschwind: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
Stefan Irnich: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany

No 1413, Working Papers from Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Abstract: We present two new methods to stabilize column-generation algorithms for the Temporal Knapsack Problem (TKP). Caprara et al. [Caprara A, Furini F, and Malaguti E (2013) Uncommon Dantzig-Wolfe Reformulation for the Temporal Knapsack Problem. INFORMS J. on Comp. 25(3):560–571] were the first to suggest the use of branch-and-price algorithms for Dantzig-Wolfe reformulations of the TKP. Herein, the respective pricing problems are smaller-sized TKP that can be solved with a general-purpose MIP solver or by dynamic programming. Our stabilization methods are tailored to the TKP as they use (deep) dual-optimal inequalities, that is, inequalities known to be fulfilled by all (at least some) optimal dual solutions to the linear relaxation.

Keywords: Column generation; dual inequalities; stabilization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2014-11-13, Revised 2014-11-13
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