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The assignment problem: further exploring parallelism

Published: 18 January 2010 Publication History

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The linear assignment problem requires the determination of an optimal permutation vector for the assignment of tasks to agents. Even the backtracking implementation supports a rather powerful bounding function. An earlier article discussed the fundamental problem and executing the backtracking in parallel. This article addresses the branch-and-bound approach and shows transforming that into a parallel algorithm.

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[1]
Timothy J. Rolfe, "The Assignment Problem: Exploring Parallelism", inroads, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2009), pp. 127--31.
[2]
The complete chapter on Branch and Bound from Sartaj Sahni's Data Structures, Algorithms, and Applications in Java (Silicon Press, 2004) is at http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~sahni/dsaaj/chapters.htm

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cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 41, Issue 4
December 2009
205 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1709424
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 18 January 2010
Published in SIGCSE Volume 41, Issue 4

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