We study the one machine scheduling problem with release and delivery times and the minimum makespan objective, in the presence of constraints that for certain pairs of jobs require a delay between the completion of the first job and the start of the second (delayed precedence constraints). This...

Pivot and Complement is a heuristic for finding approximate solutions to 0-1 programming problems. It uses the fact that a 0-1 program is equivalent to the associated linear program with the added requirement that all slack variables, other than those in the upper bounding constraints, be basic....

We investigate the computational issues that need to be addressed when incorporating general cutting planes for mixed 0-1 programs into a branch-and-cut framework. The cuts we use are of the lift-and-project variety. Some of the issues addressed have a theoretical answer, but others are of an...

We describe an approximation method for solving the minimum makespan problem of job shop scheduling. It sequences the machines one by one, successively, taking each time the machine identified as a bottleneck among the machines not yet sequenced. Every time after a new machine is sequenced, all...

In this paper the dual method and the poly-\omega technique are specialized for the generalized transportation problem. A simple procedure is obtained for solving the parametric version of this problem, i.e. for passing from a solution optimal for given values of the parameters, to solutions...

A well-known result on unions of polyhedra in the same space gives an extended formulation whose projection is the convex hull of the union. Here in contrast we study the unions of polytopes in different spaces, giving a complete description of the convex hull without additional variables. When...