On the Generalized Transportation Problem
- 1 September 1964
- journal article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Management Science
- Vol. 11 (1) , 188-202
- https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.11.1.188
Abstract
The purpose of the present paper is to extend the loop-technique of the stepping-stone algorithm to the generalized transportation problem. The main result (Theorem and Corollary of §6) is, that passing from a basic feasible solution to another one may always be carried out by constructing a simple symmetrical or a double loop (as defined in §2) and computing new values for the variables only along this path. The amount of computations needed for this turns out to be substantially reduced as compared to the usual way of solving the system of equations relating the new basis to the old one.Keywords
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