Branch and bound (BB, B&B, or BnB) is a method for solving optimization problems by breaking them down into smaller sub-problems and using a bounding...

unknowns are restricted to integer values. Branch and cut involves running a branch and bound algorithm and using cutting planes to tighten the linear...

Dantzig, Fulkerson, and Johnson used branch-and-bound algorithms perhaps for the first time. In 1959, Jillian Beardwood, J.H. Halton, and John Hammersley...

of polyhedral combinatorics. The related branch and cut method combines the cutting plane and branch and bound methods. In any subproblem, it runs the...

compatibility branch and bound (JCBB) is an algorithm in computer vision and robotics commonly used for data association in simultaneous localization and mapping...

the branch and bound method. For example, the branch and cut method that combines both branch and bound and cutting plane methods. Branch and bound algorithms...

can be applied under differentiability and convexity. Constraint optimization can be solved by branch-and-bound algorithms. These are backtracking algorithms...

and little theoretical benefit. Another method involves the use of branch and bound techniques, where the program is divided into subclasses to be solved...

and Václav Chvátal. Branch and bound (BB or B&B) is an algorithm design paradigm for discrete and combinatorial optimization problems. A branch-and-bound...

minimization mechanism operating on a tree rearrangement criterion. The branch and bound algorithm is a general method used to increase the efficiency of searches...

variables. The method is a hybrid of branch and bound and column generation methods. Branch and price is a branch and bound method in which at each node of...

turn, both Dijkstra and A* are special cases of dynamic programming. A* itself is a special case of a generalization of branch and bound. A* is similar to...

performed in the same time. Like its predecessor, it belongs to the branch and bound class of algorithms. The optimization reduces the effective depth to...

the primal-dual interior point method for non-integer problems and the branch-and-bound algorithm together with Gomory's mixed integer cuts for (mixed)...

runtime guarantees, based on methods including branch and bound, local search, greedy algorithms, and constraint programming. Non-standard computing methodologies...

approaches include branch-and-bound (an exact algorithm which can be stopped at any point in time to serve as heuristic), branch-and-cut (uses linear optimisation...

as a selection algorithm to prioritize options within a search, or branch-and-bound algorithm. There are a few variations to the greedy algorithm: Pure...

integer linear programs include: cutting-plane method Branch and bound Branch and cut Branch and price if the problem has some extra structure, it may...

program. Backtracking Branch and bound Brute-force search Divide and conquer Dynamic programming Greedy algorithm Recursion Prune and search Kernelization...

Martello, S.; Toth, P. (1984). "A mixture of dynamic programming and branch-and-bound for the subset-sum problem". Manag. Sci. 30 (6): 765–771. doi:10...

conformation tree: At each branching, branch and bound algorithms bound the conformation space and explore only the promising branches. A popular search algorithm...

supplement branch and bound algorithms of combinatorial optimization; linear programming and Lagrangian relaxations are used to obtain bounds in branch-and-bound...

Boolean algebra, Petrick's method (also known as Petrick function or branch-and-bound method) is a technique described by Stanley R. Petrick (1931–2006)...

An Asynchronous Branch-and-Bound DCOP Algorithm", Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems...

Gérard Cornuéjols and co-workers showed them to be very effective in combination with branch-and-bound (called branch-and-cut) and ways to overcome numerical...

(opt) end function Besides Dynamic Programming, Linear programming and Branch and bound are design patterns also used for exact solutions to the TSP. Linear...

Discrete optimization is a branch of optimization in applied mathematics and computer science. As opposed to continuous optimization, some or all of the...

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"Multi-criteria branch and bound: A vector maximization algorithm for Mixed 0-1 Multiple Objective Linear Programming". Applied Mathematics and Computation...

November 1929) is an Australian mathematician and statistician most well-known for co-defining the branch and bound algorithm along with Ailsa Land whilst carrying...