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In this chapter, we discuss briefly the most important applications of network flow problems.

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Vanderbei, R.J. (2020). Applications. In: Linear Programming. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 285. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39415-8_15

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