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Definition: An optimization problem with an enlarged feasible region (and extended objective function) compared with an original optimization problem. Typically, the relaxation is considerably easier to solve than the original.
Note: From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, pages 32-39 and 34-18, Copyright © 1999 by CRC Press LLC. Appearing in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Copyright © 2000 CRC Press LLC.
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Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, CRC Press LLC, 1999, "relaxation", in
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
Structures [online], Paul E. Black, ed.,
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