| Article ID: | iaor1993360 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 53 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 339 |
| End Page Number: | 359 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1992 |
| Journal: | Mathematical Programming (Series A) |
| Authors: | Thach Phan Thien |
This paper develops a decomposition method using a pricing mechanism which has been widely applied to linear and convex programs for a class of nonconvex optimization problems that are min concave cost flow problems under directed, uncapacitated networks with a hierarchical structure.