From the pioneering works of Dantzig, Edmonds and others, polyhedral (i.e. linear programming based) methods have been successfully applied to the resolution of many combinatorial optimization problems. See Jünger, Reinelt & Rinaldi (1995) for an excellent survey on this topic. Roughly speaking, the method consists of trying to formulate the problem as a Linear Program and using the existing powerful methods of Linear Programming to solve it.
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Benavent, E., Corberán, A., & Sanchis, J. M. (2000). Linear Programming Based Methods for Solving Arc Routing Problems. In Arc Routing (pp. 231–275). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4495-1_7
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