Valid Inequalities and Facets for the Capacitated Lot-Sizing Problem with Changeover Costs

01/11/1991

Valid Inequalities and Facets for the Capacitated Lot-Sizing Problem with Changeover Costs

Sastry Trilochan

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We study a scheduling problem with costs and capacity constraints. The problem is NP-complete and combinatorial algorithms have not been very successful. We identify a general class of facets which subsumes as a special case all facets described earlier. We also develop a cutting plane based procedure for the dynamic version of the problem, and solve problem instances with up to 1200 integer variables to optimality without resorting to branch and bound procedures.