| Article ID: | iaor1996307 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 50 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 101 |
| End Page Number: | 109 |
| Publication Date: | May 1994 |
| Journal: | Discrete Applied Mathematics |
| Authors: | Wolsey Laurence A., Aghezzaf El Houssaine |
| Keywords: | programming: integer |
An important modelling question is that of how to obtain tight mixed integer programming formulations for problems involving piecewise linear concave cost functions. The authors examine in detail a tree partitioning model, and then specialise the results to the economic lot-sizing problem.