For industrial organizations serious about AI value, objective functions can provide the critical link between technical capabilities and business outcomes.

We provide bounds on optimal objective function values and conditions under which reductions to simpler models can be made. Our solution method embeds a branch-and-cut scheme within a Monte Carlo ...

Column generation is one of the most successful approaches for solving large-scale linear programming problems. However, degeneracy difficulties and long-tail effects are known to occur as problems ...