Conference Paper: Partial Path Column Generation for the Elementary Shortest Path Problem with Resource Constraints
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This paper introduces a decomposition of the Elementary Shortest Path Problem with Resource Constraints(ESPPRC), where the path is combined by smaller sub paths. We show computationals result by comparing different approaches for the decomposition and compare the best of these with existing algorithms. We show that the algorithm for many instances outperforms a bidirectional labeling algorithm.
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