Integer programming, a cornerstone of combinatorial optimisation, focuses on the selection of discrete decision variables to solve complex real‐world problems such as scheduling, network design ...

Brian J. Griggs, Gregory S. Parnell, Lee J. Lehmkuhl, An Air Mission Planning Algorithm Using Decision Analysis and Mixed Integer Programming, Operations Research ...

It covers basic algorithm design techniques such as divide and conquer, dynamic programming, and greedy algorithms. It concludes with a brief introduction to intractability (NP-completeness) .