Table of Contents

A Primer in Column Generation.- Shortest Path Problems with Resource Constraints.- Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows.- Branch-and-Price Heuristics: A Case Study on the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows.- Cutting Stock Problems.- Large-Scale Models in the Airline Industry.- Robust Inventory Ship Routing by Column Generation.- Ship Scheduling with Recurring Visits and Visit Separation Requirements.- Combining Column Generation and Lagrangian Relaxation.- Dantzig-Wolfe Decomposition for Job Shop Scheduling.- Applying Column Generation to Machine Scheduling.- Implementing Mixed Integer Column Generation.