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Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamic Programming

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Dynamic programming is one of the more widely used techniques for dealing with combinatorial optimization problems. Dynamic Programming can be applied to problems that are solvable in polynomial time, as well as problems that cannot be solved in polynomial time (see Appendix C). It has proven to be very useful for stochastic problems as well

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Pinedo, M.L. (2012). Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamic Programming. In: Scheduling. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2361-4_22

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