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2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Minimum Cost Flows
Published in: Combinatorial Optimization
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In this chapter we show how we can take edge costs into account. For example, in our application of the
Maximum Flow Problem
to the
Job Assignment Problem
mentioned in the introduction of Chapter 8 one could introduce edge costs to model that the employees have different salaries; our goal is to meet a deadline when all jobs must be finished at a minimum cost. Of course, there are many more applications.