## Total Coloring and Total Matching: Polyhedra and Facets

A total coloring of a graph G = (V, E) is an assignment of colors to vertices and edges such that neither two adjacent vertices nor two incident edges get the same color, and, for each edge, the end-points and the edge itself receive different colors. Any valid total coloring induces a partition of the … Read more

## Total Coloring and Total Matching: Polyhedra and Facets

A total coloring of a graph G = (V, E) is an assignment of colors to vertices and edges such that neither two adjacent vertices nor two incident edges get the same color, and, for each edge, the end-points and the edge itself receive a different color. Any valid total coloring induces a partition of … Read more

## Lower Bounds on the Size of General Branch-and-Bound Trees

A \emph{general branch-and-bound tree} is a branch-and-bound tree which is allowed to use general disjunctions of the form $\pi^{\top} x \leq \pi_0 \,\vee\, \pi^{\top}x \geq \pi_0 + 1$, where $\pi$ is an integer vector and $\pi_0$ is an integer scalar, to create child nodes. We construct a packing instance, a set covering instance, and a … Read more

## An Exact Method for Assortment Optimization under the Nested Logit Model

We study the problem of finding an optimal assortment of products maximizing the expected revenue, in which customer preferences are modeled using a Nested Logit choice model. This problem is known to be polynomially solvable in a specific case and NP-hard otherwise, with only approximation algorithms existing in the literature. For the NP-hard cases, we … Read more

## Matching Algorithms and Complexity Results for Constrained Mixed-Integer Optimal Control with Switching Costs

We extend recent work on the performance of the combinatorial integral approximation decomposition approach for Mixed-Integer Optimal Control Problems (MIOCPs) in the presence of combinatorial constraints or switching costs on an equidistant grid. For the time discretized problem, we reformulate the emerging rounding problem in the decomposition approach as a matching problem on a bipartite … Read more

## The Non-Stop Disjoint Trajectories Problem

Given an undirected network with traversal times on its edges and connection requests from sources to destinations for commodities with release dates. The non-stop disjoint trajectories problem is to find trajectories that fulfill all requests, such that the commodities never meet. In this extension to the \NP-complete disjoint paths problem, trajectories must satisfy a non-stop … Read more

## A branch-and-cut algorithm for the Edge Interdiction Clique Problem

Given a graph G and an interdiction budget k, the Edge Interdiction Clique Problem (EICP) asks to find a subset of at most k edges to remove from G so that the size of the maximum clique, in the interdicted graph, is minimized. The EICP belongs to the family of interdiction problems with the aim … Read more

## Γ-counterparts for robust nonlinear combinatorial and discrete optimization

Γ-uncertainty sets have been introduced for adjusting the degree of conservatism of robust counterparts of (discrete) linear programs. The contribution of this paper is a generalization of this approach to (mixed–integer) nonlinear optimization programs. We focus on the cases in which the uncertainty is linear or concave but also derive formulations for the general case. … Read more

## One transfer per patient suffices: Structural insights about patient-to-room assignment

While many heuristics have been proposed for the problem of patient-to-room assignment (PRA) with a large variety of different practical constraints, a thorough investigation of the problem’s structure itself has been neglected so far. Therefore, in this paper, we present insights about the basic, underlying combinatorial problem of PRA. At first we consider the problem … Read more

## The Multi-Stop Station Location Problem

We introduce the (directed) multi-stop station location problem. The goal is to install stations such that ordered (multi-)sets of stops can be traversed with respect to range restrictions that are reset whenever a station is visited. Applications arise in telecommunications and transportation, e.g., charging station placement problems. The problem generalizes several network optimization problems such … Read more