aImperial College London, Department of Computing, 180 Queen’s Gate, London, SW7 2AZ, UK;bDecisal Ltd, 20 Purcell Crescent, London, SW6 7PB, UK
Abstract:
The Magnanti–Wong method–accelerating Benders decomposition–is shown to exhibit difficulties due to its dependence on the subproblem; an independent version is therefore introduced. The method additionally requires a–sometimes intractable–master problem core point; for several applications it is proved and experimentally verified that alternative points may be used.