branch_lookahead.h

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/**@file   branch_lookahead.h
 * @ingroup BRANCHINGRULES
 * @brief  lookahead LP branching rule
 * @author Christoph Schubert
 * @author Gerald Gamrath
 *
 * The (multi-level) lookahead branching rule applies strong branching to every fractional value of the LP solution
 * at the current node of the branch-and-bound tree, as well as recursivly to every temporary child problem created by this
 * strong branching. The rule selects the candidate with the best proven dual bound.
 *
 * The branching rule was motivated by the following technical report:
 *
 * @par
 * Wasu Glankwamdee and Jeff Linderoth@n
 * Lookahead Branching for Mixed Integer Programming@n
 * Technical Report 06T-004, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University.
 *
 * For a more mathematical description and a comparison between lookahead branching and other branching rules
 * in SCIP, we refer to
 *
 * @par
 * Christoph Schubert@n
 * Multi-Level Lookahead Branching@n
 * Master Thesis, Technische Universität Berlin, 2017@n
 */
 
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#ifndef __SCIP_BRANCH_LOOKAHEAD_H__
#define __SCIP_BRANCH_LOOKAHEAD_H__
 
 
#include "scip/def.h"
#include "scip/type_retcode.h"
#include "scip/type_scip.h"
 
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
 
/** creates the lookahead branching rule and includes it in SCIP */
SCIP_EXPORT
SCIP_RETCODE SCIPincludeBranchruleLookahead(
   SCIP*                 scip                /**< SCIP data structure */
   );
 
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
 
#endif