Two‐Stage Stochastic Integer Programming: A Brief Introduction

Stochastic integer programming problems combine the difficulty of stochastic programming with integer programming. In this article, we briefly review some of the challenges in solving two-stage stochastic integer programming problems, and discuss the research progress toward these challenges. Keywords: stochastic programming; integer programming; value functions; algorithms; sampling; decomposition

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