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Coefficient perturbation of a constrained extremum

Author(s)
Thomas Saaty
Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
University of Pittsburgh
United States

Publication date: Jun, 1959

Journal: Operations Research
Vol.: 7- Issue: 3- Pages: 294-302

Abstract: A schedule of allocating labor (in a shipping operation) whose available amount is a function of time, to different tasks, in order to minimize the total cost, is given. The problem is cast in linear-programming form in which all the coefficients are parameterized. An illustration is given followed by a general discussion of the use and limitation of this method, which yields a correspondence between optimal solutions and ranges of time values. The dependence of the optimal value on the parameterized coefficients leads to a sensitivity study.

Keywords: Linear programming, Labor allocation, Optimal solutions, Optimization

URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.7.3.294