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Integer Programming

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We do not consider mixed integer programs, i.e. linear programs with integrality constraints for only a subset of the variables.Most of the theory of linear and integer programming can be extended to mixed integer programming in a natural way.

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Korte, B., Vygen, J. (2012). Integer Programming. In: Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Combinatorics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24488-9_5

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