| Article ID: | iaor20102851 |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 444 |
| End Page Number: | 449 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2008 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Papadakos Nikolaos |
| Keywords: | Benders decomposition |
The Magnanti–Wong method–accelerating Benders decomposition–is shown to exhibit difficulties due to its dependence on the subproblem; an independent version is therefore introduced. The method additionally requires a–sometimes intractable–master problem core point; for several applications it is proved and experimentally verified that alternative points may be used.