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Advances in Solving the Multicommodity-Flow Problem

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  • Richard D. McBride

    (Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-1421)

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The multicommodity-flow problem arises in a wide variety of important applications. Many communications, logistics, manufacturing, and transportation problems can be formulated as large multicommodity-flow problems. During the last few years researchers have made steady advances in solving extremely large multicommodity-flow problems. This improvement has been due both to algorithmic and to hardware advances. At present the primal simplex method using the basis-partitioning approach gives excellent solution times even on modest hardware. These results imply that we can now efficiently solve the extremely large multicommodity-flow models found in industry. The extreme-point solution can also be quickly reoptimized to meet the additional requirements often imposed upon the continuous solution. Currently practitioners are using EMNET, a primal basis-partitioning algorithm, to solve extremely large logistics problems with more than 600,000 constraints and 7,000,000 variables in the food industry.

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  • Richard D. McBride, 1998. "Advances in Solving the Multicommodity-Flow Problem," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 28(2), pages 32-41, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:28:y:1998:i:2:p:32-41
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.28.2.32
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