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integer multi-commodity flow

(definition)

Definition: A multi-commodity flow in which the flow of each commodity through each edge must take an integer value. The term is also used to capture the multi-commodity flow problem in which each demand is routed along a single path.

Note: From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, page 7-21, 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, "integer multi-commodity flow", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/integermulti.html