One of the most computationally useful ideas of the 1970s is the observation that many hard integer programming problems can be viewed as easy problems complicated by a relatively small set of side ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article is based on an idea proposed by C. W. Carroll for transforming a mathematical programming problem into a sequence of ...

Grade school math students are likely familiar with teachers admonishing them not to just guess the answer to a problem. But a new proof establishes that, in fact, the right kind of guessing is ...