Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Samira Rezaei ¹
• Amin Ghodousian ²

¹ Department of Algorithms and Computation, University of Tehran

² University of Tehran, College of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Science

Abstract

In this paper, a mathematical method is proposed to formulate a generalized ordering problem. This model is formed as a linear optimization model in which some variables are binary. The constraints of the problem have been analyzed with the emphasis on the assessment of their importance in the formulation. On the one hand, these constraints enforce conditions on an arbitrary subgraph and then give sufficient conditions for feasibility, on the other hand, they provide a natural way to generalize the applied aspects of the model without increasing the number of the binary variables.

Keywords

• linear programming
• integer programming
• minimum ordering