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An Automatic Method for Solving Discrete Programming Problems

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In the late 1950s there was a group of teachers and research assistants at the London School of Economics interested in linear programming and its extensions, in particular Helen Makower, George Morton, Ailsa Land and Alison Doig. We had considered the ‘Laundry Van Problem’ until we discovered that it was known as the Traveling Salesman Problem, and had looked at aircraft timetabling, until quickly realizing that even the planning for the Scottish sector was beyond our capability! Alison Doig (now Harcourt) had studied the paper trim problem for her Masters project in Melbourne before coming to England.

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  1. H.M. Markowitz and A.S. Manne, On the solution of discrete programming problems, Econometrica 25 (1957) 84–110.

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  1. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

    Ailsa H. Land

  2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Alison G. Doig

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  1. Inst. Informatik, Universität Köln, Pohligstr. 1, Köln, 50969, Germany

    Michael Jünger

  2. Fac. Sciences de Base (FSB), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland

    Thomas M. Liebling

  3. Ensimag, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, avenue Félix Viallet 46, Grenoble CX 1, 38031, France

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  4. School of Industrial &, Georgia Institute of Technology, Ferst Drive NW., 765, Atlanta, 30332-0205, USA

    George L. Nemhauser

  5. IBM Corporation, Route 100 294, Somers, 10589, USA

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  6. Inst. Informatik, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 326, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

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  7. ed Informatica, CNR - Ist. Analisi dei Sistemi, Viale Manzoni 30, Roma, 00185, Italy

    Giovanni Rinaldi

  8. Center for Operations Reserach &, Université Catholique de Louvain, voie du Roman Pays 34, Leuven, 1348, Belgium

    Laurence A. Wolsey

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Land, A.H., Doig, A.G. (2010). An Automatic Method for Solving Discrete Programming Problems. In: Jünger, M., et al. 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68279-0_5

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