Saturday, April 11, 2009

Branch and bound Method

It is a general algorithmic method for finding optimal solutions of various optimization problems, especially in discrete and combinatorial optimization. It belongs to the class of implicit enumeration methods. The method was first proposed by A. H. Land and A. G. Doig in 1960 for linear programming.

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