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Minimum Cost Network Flow Algorithms

Jeffery L. Kennington () and Richard V. Helgason ()
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Jeffery L. Kennington: Southern Methodist University
Richard V. Helgason: Southern Methodist University

Chapter 6 in Handbook of Optimization in Telecommunications, 2006, pp 147-162 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The minimal cost network flow model is defined along with optimality criteria and three efficient procedures for obtaining an optimal solution. Primal and dual network simplex methods are specializations of well-known algorithms for linear programs. The primal procedure maintains primal feasibility at each iteration and seeks to simultaneously achieve dual feasibility, The dual procedure maintains dual feasibility and moves toward primal feasibility. All operations for both algorithms can be performed on a graphical structure called a tree. The scaling push-relabel method is designed exclusively for optimization problems on a network. Neither primal nor dual feasibility is achieved until the final iteration.

Keywords: Networks-graphs flow algorithms; integer programming algorithms; linear programming algorithms; linear programming simplex algorithms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-30165-5_6

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