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Robust Two-Stage Network Problems

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Operations Research Proceedings 2015

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In this paper a class of network optimization problems is discussed. It is assumed that a partial solution can be formed in the first stage, when the arc costs are precisely known, and completed optimally in the second stage, after a true second-stage cost scenario occurs. The robust min-max criterion is used to compute an optimal solution. Several complexity results for the interval and discrete uncertainty representations are provided.

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This work was partially supported by the National Center for Science (Narodowe Centrum Nauki), grant 2013/09/B/ST6/01525.

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Kasperski, A., Zieliński, P. (2017). Robust Two-Stage Network Problems. In: Dörner, K., Ljubic, I., Pflug, G., Tragler, G. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2015. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42902-1_5

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