A fully polynomial epsilon approximation cutting plane algorithm for solving combinatorial linear programs containing a sufficiently large ball

  • Authors:
  • E.Andrew Boyd

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University, 23 Zavhry Building, College Station, TX 77843-3133, USA

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

A cutting plane algorithm is presented for finding @e-approximate solutions to integer programs contained in the unit hypercube and represented by a separation oracle. Under the assumption that a polynomially bounded ball is contained in the feasible region of the problem, it is demonstrated that the algorithm is an oracle fully polynomial @e approximation scheme. Implications of the result for 0/1 integer programming are discussed.