BAC : A BCP based Branch-and-Cut Example

This paper is an introduction to the Branch-and-Cut-and-Price (BCP) software from the user perspective. It focuses on a simple example illustrating the basic operations used in a Branch-and-Cut: cuts and heuristic solutions generation, and customized branching. Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, U.S.A. Email: fmargot@andrew.cmu.edu . Work initiated in 2003 while visiting the Department of Mathematical Sciences, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598.