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Published on16. Februar 2026Aspects of OR - Integer Programming (Part 2)operations-researchorinteger-programmingbranch-and-boundoptimizationenglishBranch and bound: the workhorse algorithm for integer programming, explained with a complete example showing all three pruning types.
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Published on16. Februar 2026Aspects of OR - Integer Programming (Part 4)operations-researchorinteger-programmingbranch-and-cutoptimizationenglishBranch-and-cut and how modern IP solvers work: combining branch and bound with cutting planes, presolve, heuristics, and parallelism.