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The conclusion was that proportionality could indeed be assumed without
serious distortion. For other problems, what happens when the proportionality
assumption does not hold even as a reasonable approximation? In most cases,
this ...
The conclusion was that proportionality could indeed be assumed without
serious distortion. For other problems, what happens when the proportionality
assumption does not hold even as a reasonable approximation? In most cases,
this ...
Page 42
For other problems, if additivity is not a reasonable assumption, so that some of
or all the mathematical functions of the ... Since each decision variable
represents the level of some activity, it is being assumed that the activities can be
run at ...
For other problems, if additivity is not a reasonable assumption, so that some of
or all the mathematical functions of the ... Since each decision variable
represents the level of some activity, it is being assumed that the activities can be
run at ...
Page 43
Certainty assumption: The value assigned to each parameter of a linear
programming model is assumed to be a known constant. In real applications, the
certainty assumption is seldom satisfied precisely. Linear programming models
usually ...
Certainty assumption: The value assigned to each parameter of a linear
programming model is assumed to be a known constant. In real applications, the
certainty assumption is seldom satisfied precisely. Linear programming models
usually ...
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| Title | Introduction to Operations Research, Volume 1 Introduction to Operations Research, Frederick S. Hillier McGraw-Hill series in industrial engineering and management science |
| Authors | Frederick S. Hillier, Gerald J. Lieberman |
| Edition | 7, illustrated |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 8 Aug 2011 |
| ISBN | 0072416181, 9780072416183 |
| Length | 1214 pages |
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