# Integer and Combinatorial Optimization

## MATP-6620

Exact and heuristic methods for solving discrete problems, including the traveling salesman problem, the knapsack problem, packing and covering problems. Algorithm complexity and NP-completeness, cutting plane methods and polyhedral theory, branch and bound, Lagrangian duality, liftings, metaheuristics.

4 credits
Prereqs:
MATH-2010 Multivariable Calculus and Matrix Algebra
and
MATP-4700 Mathematical Models of Operations Research

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| Spring | Summer | Fall
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2024 |  |  |
2023 | Integer & Combinatorial Opt. (4c) John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 9/40 |  |
2022 |  |  |
2021 | Integer & Combinatorial Opt. (4c) John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 14/30 |  |
2020 |  |  |
2019 | Integer & Combinatorial Opt. (4c) John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 11/25 |  |
2018 |  |  |
2017 | Combinat Optimizat & Int Progr (4c) John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 13/30 |  |
2016 |  |  |
2015 | Combinat Optimizat & Int Progr (4c) Michael Joseph Conroy John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 19/30 |  |
2014 |  |  |
2013 | Combinat Optimizat & Int Progr (4c) John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 17/30 |  |
2012 |  |  |
2011 | Combinat Optimizat & Int Progr (4c) John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 18/30 |  |
2010 |  |  |
2009 | Combinat Optimizat & Int Progr (4c) John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 6/40 |  |
2008 |  |  |
2007 | Combinat Optimizat & Int Progr (4c) John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 9/30 |  |
2006 |  |  |
2005 |  |  | Combinat Optimizat & Int Progr (4c) John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 19/30
2004 |  |  |
2003 | Combinat Optimizat & Int Progr (4c) John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 12/30 |  |
2002 |  |  |
2001 | Combinat Optimizat & Int Progr (4c) John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 10/30 |  |
2000 |  |  |
1999 | Comb Opt & Integer Progr (4c) John E. Mitchell Seats Taken: 6/30 |  |
1998 |  |  |