What does BnB stand for?

Application of the branch and bound technique to some flow shops scheduling problems," Operations Research, Vol.

Nicholson (industrial control systems, London Business School)gives those who must apply optimization techniques while simultaneously justifying their innovations financially in the short term a good grounding in theory and rationalization as well as a toolbox, addressing the necessary mathematical background, optimization problems and methods (including equity and inequity constraints, global and local optima and the search from the optimum), calculus and Lagrange multipliers, linear programming, optimization of non-linear functions, dynamic programming, branch and bound methods, permutation procedures, heuristic techniques, and problem specifications and their mathematics.

For the bi-criteria problem of maximizing throughput and minimizing inventory, Roundy (1992) presents a specialized branch and bound procedure to identify the Pareto frontier of non-dominated cyclic schedules.