Cutting Planes for Multistage Stochastic Integer Programs

This paper addresses the problem of finding cutting planes for multistage stochastic integer programs. We give a general method for generating cutting planes for multistage stochastic integer programs based on combining inequalities that are valid for the individual scenarios. We apply the method to generate cuts for a stochastic version of a dynamic knapsack problem and for stochastic lot-sizing problems. We give computational results, which show that these new inequalities are very effective in a branch-and-cut algorithm.

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