This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Model equivalences may sometimes be used to replace 'realistic' but unwieldy initial formulations with simpler counterparts. This can involve ...

Note that the optimal solution to Gonzaga’s problem denoted by (G) is [a, 0] T with an optimal value of the objective function equal to a, a ≥ 10. From the infeasible starting point e = [1, 1] T, the ...

Roughly, we will cover the following topics (some of them may be skipped depending on the time available). Linear Programming: Basics, Simplex Algorithm, and Duality. Applications of Linear ...

1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, China. 2 Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of ...

In the classical secretary problem an employer would like to choose the best candidate among n competing candidates that arrive in a random order. In each iteration, one candidate's rank vis-a-vis ...