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Heuristics, Relaxations, and Branch and Bound

There is one further use of heuristics: when combined with a relaxation, they give a branch and bound algorithm. In many cases, with good heuristics and good relaxations, it is possible to get optimal, or very near to optimal, solutions.



Michael A. Trick
Mon Nov 11 15:16:52 EST 1996