transportation problem

transportation problem : In mathematics and economics, transportation theory is a name given to the study of optimal transportation and allocation of resources. The problem was formalized by the French mathematician Gaspard Monge in 1781. Major advances were made in the field during World War II by the Soviet/ Russian mathematician and economist Leonid Kantorovich. Consequently, the problem as it is now stated is sometimes known as the Monge-Kantorovich transportation problem. Suppose that we have a collection of $n$ mines mining iron ore, and a collection of $n$ factories which consume the iron ore that the mines produce. Suppose for the sake of argument that these mines and factories form two disjoint subsets $M$ and $F$ of the Euclidean plane $\backslash mathbb\{R\}^\{2\}$. Suppose also that we have a cost function $c :\; \backslash mathbb\{R\}^\{2\}\; \backslash times\; \backslash mathbb\{R\}^\{2\}\; \backslash to\; [0,\; +\; \backslash infty]$, so that $c(x,\; y)$ is the cost of transp....   More from Wikipedia

transportation problem : A transportation network is a type of directed, weighted graph or network. Transportation networks are used to model the flow of commodity, information, or traffic (see transport network). A transportation network G is a graph with Flows represent commodity flowing along arcs from the..   More from Wikipedia

  The classic network setup called the transportation problem is modeled using Linear Programming.

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