Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization [electronic resource] : 6th International IPCO Conference Houston, Texas, June 22–24, 1998 Proceedings /

0,1 Matrices, Matroids -- The Packing Property -- A Characterization of Weakly Bipartite Graphs -- Bipartite Designs -- Characterizing Noninteger Polyhedra with 0–1 Constraints -- A Theorem of Truemper -- The Generalized Stable Set Problem for Claw-Free Bidirected Graphs -- On a Min-max Theorem of Cacti -- Edge Connectivity -- Edge-Splitting and Edge-Connectivity Augmentation in Planar Graphs -- A New Bound for the 2-Edge Connected Subgraph Problem -- An Improved Approximation Algorithm for Minimum Size 2-Edge Connected Spanning Subgraphs -- Algorithms -- Multicuts in Unweighted Graphs with Bounded Degree and Bounded Tree-Width -- Approximating Disjoint-Path Problems Using Greedy Algorithms and Packing Integer Programs -- Approximation Algorithms for the Mixed Postman Problem -- Improved Approximation Algorithms for Uncapacitated Facility Location -- The Maximum Traveling Salesman Problem Under Polyhedral Norms -- Integer Programming Applications -- Polyhedral Combinatorics of Benzenoid Problems -- Consecutive Ones and a Betweenness Problem in Computational Biology -- Solving a Linear Diophantine Equation with Lower and Upper Bounds on the Variables -- Integer Programming Computation -- The Intersection of Knapsack Polyhedra and Extensions -- New Classes of Lower Bounds for Bin Packing Problems -- Solving Integer and Disjunctive Programs by Lift and Project -- A Class of Hard Small 0—1 Programs -- Network Flows -- Building Chain and Cactus Representations of All Minimum Cuts from Hao-Orlin in the Same Asymptotic Run Time -- Simple Generalized Maximum Flow Algorithms -- The Pseudoflow Algorithm and the Pseudoflow-Based Simplex for the Maximum Flow Problem -- An Implementation of a Combinatorial Approximation Algorithm for Minimum-Cost Multicommodity Flow -- Scheduling -- Non-approximability Resultsfor Scheduling Problems with Minsum Criteria -- Approximation Bounds for a General Class of Precedence Constrained Parallel Machine Scheduling Problems -- An Efficient Approximation Algorithm for Minimizing Makespan on Uniformly Related Machines -- On the Relationship Between Combinatorial and LP-Based Approaches to NP-Hard Scheduling Problems -- Quadratic Assignment Problems -- Polyhedral Combinatorics of Quadratic Assignment Problems with Less Objects than Locations -- Incorporating Inequality Constraints in the Spectral Bundle Method.