Valid inequalities and separation for uncapacitated fixed charge networks

  • Authors:
  • Tony J Van Roy;Laurence A Wolsey

  • Affiliations:
  • Bank Brussels-Lambert, Brussels, Belgium;CORE, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

A family of valid linear inequalities for uncapacitated fixed charge networks is given. As special cases this family includes the linear inequalities describing the convex hull of the single-item uncapacitated lot-sizing problem and the variable upper bounds which are typically used in location and distribution planning problems. Various special cases, where the separation problem for the family of inequalities is solvable in polynomial time, are investigated.