A Practical Way of Dealing with the Complexity of IP

question 57

Multiple Choice

A practical way of dealing with the complexity of IP problems is to:

• A) stop searching for a better solution when the current best solution is within specified suboptimality tolerances
• B) continue searching for the optimal solution until no further objective function improvement can be achieved
• C) use a B&B technique
• D) use LP relaxation and round the values of the decision variables to the nearest integers

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