Network design problems constitute a critical area in operations research and engineering, where the objective is to construct or upgrade network infrastructures optimally under a range of ...

Developing algorithmic thinking. Basic toolkit for the design and analysis of algorithms: Running time, Recurrence relations, Big-O notation, Correctness, Finite induction, Loop invariants. Tour of ...

A fast and effective branch-and-bound algorithm, which incorporates this heuristic for use in bounding, is developed. The algorithm introduces heuristic fathoming as a technique for reducing the size ...