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The column generation principle and the airline crew scheduling problem. (English) Zbl 0614.90058

The generation and selection of a good set of pairings is a complex, costly and very central part of the airline crew scheduling process. We propose a column-generating type algorithm which, based on reduced costs manipulations, finds such a good set of pairings, namely the set containing the optimal solution to the linear relaxation of the set covering formulation of the problem.

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90B35 Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research
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