Formulate linear and integer programming problems for solving commonly encountered optimization problems. Understand how approximation algorithms compute solutions that are guaranteed to be within ...

We also show a family of linear programs that characterize all algorithms that are allowed to choose J candidates and gain profit from the K best candidates. We believe that a linear programming based ...

The computational results on problems with up to 2750 variables strongly confirm our hypothesis that a combination of problem preprocessing, cutting planes, and clever branch-and-bound techniques ...