“…The use of ILP is a natural approach for formulating several problems where it is necessary to optimize the system characterizing the constraints, the integrality constraints and the objective. Such ILP models play a central role for solving a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems, including cutting and packing (cf., Hifi, Negre Kacem, & Wu, 2010), vehicle routing (cf., Baldacci, Toth, & Vigo, 2010;Iori, Salazar González, & Vigo, 2007), knapsacks (cf., Cherfi & Hifi, 2010;Puchinger, Raidl, & Pferschy, 2010) and other operations research problems. Furthermore, several of these combinatorial optimization problems cannot be solved exactly within a reasonable amount of time.…”