50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008

Download or read book 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008 written by Michael Jünger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1958, Ralph E. Gomory transformed the field of integer programming when he published a paper that described a cutting-plane algorithm for pure integer programs and announced that the method could be refined to give a finite algorithm for integer programming. In 2008, to commemorate the anniversary of this seminal paper, a special workshop celebrating fifty years of integer programming was held in Aussois, France, as part of the 12th Combinatorial Optimization Workshop. It contains reprints of key historical articles and written versions of survey lectures on six of the hottest topics in the field by distinguished members of the integer programming community. Useful for anyone in mathematics, computer science and operations research, this book exposes mathematical optimization, specifically integer programming and combinatorial optimization, to a broad audience.