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Assignment lower bound from independent task minima

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For a partial assignment problem, add its fixed cost to the sum, over remaining tasks, of each task's cheapest available machine cost. This is a lower bound because it relaxes the requirement that different tasks use distinct machines. It is an admissible bound for branch and bound, even though the minimizing choices may assign the same machine repeatedly.
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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2003 / iii / Paper 37 / 3 / Solution
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