| Article ID: | iaor19972072 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 207 |
| End Page Number: | 211 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1996 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Martello Silvano, DellAmico Mauro |
| Keywords: | scheduling, communication |
The authors consider a combinatorial optimization problem arising, in different forms, in scheduling theory and in satellite communication theory. They show that two classical algorithms, independently obtained in these two domains, implement a technique developed in 1931 by Egerváry.