On the history of the transportation and maximum flow problems |
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| Authors: | Alexander Schrijver |
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| Institution: | (1) CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Department of Mathematics, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, NL |
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| Abstract: | We review two papers that are of historical interest for combinatorial optimization: an article of A.N. Tolsto&ıbreve; from
1930, in which the transportation problem is studied, and a negative cycle criterion is developed and applied to solve a (for
that time) large-scale (10×68) transportation problem to optimality; and an, until recently secret, RAND report of T.E. Harris
and F.S. Ross from 1955, that Ford and Fulkerson mention as motivation to study the maximum flow problem. The papers have
in common that they both apply their methods to the Soviet railway network.
Received: August 11, 2000 / Accepted: March 28, 2001?Published online October 26, 2001 |
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