TABLE 1.4 Order of Magnitude of the Maximal Size of Instances that
State-of-the-Art Exact Methods can Solve to Optimality
Optimization Quadratic Flow-Shop Graph Capacitated
Problems Assignment Scheduling (FSP) Coloring Vehicle Routing
Size of the 30 objects 100 jobs 100 nodes 60 clients
instances 20 machines
For some practical problems, this maximum size may be negligible. For the TSP problem, an instance of
size 13,509 has been solved to optimality [32].