Optimization Modelling Using R

299 Pages·2022·9.079 MB·English

by  Timothy R. Anderson

Optimization
Modeling Using R
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Contents
List of Figures xiii
List of Tables xv
Preface xix
Author xxiii
1 Introduction 1
1.1 What is Operations Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Purpose of this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.3 Range of Operations Research Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.4 Relationship between Operations Research and Analytics . . . 3
1.5 Importance of Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.6 Why R? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.7 Conventions Used in this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Introduction to Linear Programming 7
2.1 What Is Linear Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2 Two Variable Base Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3 Graphically Solving a Linear Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.4 Implementing and Solving with ompr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.4.1 Preparing to Implement the Linear Program . . . . . . 14
2.4.2 Implementing the Base Case with Piping . . . . . . . . 20
2.5 Adding a Third Product (Variable) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.5.1 Three Variable Base Case Formulation . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.5.2 Three Variable Base Case Implementation . . . . . . . . 23
2.5.3 Three Variable Case Results and Interpretation . . . . . 24
2.6 Linear Programming Special Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.6.1 Case 1: No Feasible Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.6.2 Case 2: Multiple Optima. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.6.3 Case 3: Redundant Constraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.6.4 Case 4: Unbounded Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.7 Abstracting the Production Planning Model . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.8 Methods of Solving Linear Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.9 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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3 More Linear Programming Models 39
3.1 Types of LP Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.2 The Algebraic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.2.1 Tips and Conventions for Algebraic Models . . . . . . . 40
3.2.2 Building the Generalized Model in R . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.2.3 Examining the Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
3.2.4 Changing the Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3.3 Common Linear Programming Applications . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3.3.1 Blending Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3.4 Allocation Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
3.4.1 Covering Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3.4.2 Transportation Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3.4.3 Transshipment Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.4.4 Production and Inventory Planning . . . . . . . . . . . 59
3.4.5 Standard Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3.5 Vector and Matrix Forms of LPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3.6 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
4 Sensitivity Analysis 71
4.1 Base Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
4.2 Shadow Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.2.1 Extraction and Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.2.2 Example of Adding an Hour to Assembly . . . . . . . . 74
4.2.3 Shadow Prices of Underutilized Resources . . . . . . . . 75
4.3 Reduced Costs of Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
4.3.1 Reduced Cost of Ants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
4.3.2 Reduced Price of Bats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
4.4 Using Sensitivity Analysis to Evaluate a New Product . . . . . 81
4.5 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5 Data Envelopment Analysis 85
5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.2 Creating the Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
5.3 Graphical Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
5.4 The Linear Programs for DEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
5.4.1 An Explicit Linear Program for DEA . . . . . . . . . . 90
5.4.2 A Generalized Linear Program for DEA . . . . . . . . . 91
5.5 Creating the LP – The Algebraic Approach . . . . . . . . . . . 93
5.6 Returns to Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.7 Multiple Inputs and Multiple Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.8 Extracting Multiplier Weights from Sensitivity Analysis . . . . 113
5.9 Slack Maximization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
5.10 DEA Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
5.11 DEA Model Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
5.11.1 Selection of Inputs and Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
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5.11.2 Model Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
5.11.3 Application Area Expertise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
5.12 Further Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
5.13 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
6 Mixed Integer Optimization 125
6.1 Example of Minor Integrality Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
6.2 Example of Major Integality Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
6.3 The Branch and Bound Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
6.3.1 The LP Relaxation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
6.3.2 Subproblem I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
6.3.3 Subproblem III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
6.3.4 Subproblem IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
6.3.5 Subproblem V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
6.3.6 Subproblem VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
6.3.7 Subproblem VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
6.3.8 Subproblem VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
6.3.9 Subproblem II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
6.4 Computational Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
6.4.1 Full Enumeration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
6.5 Binary Variables and Logical Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
6.6 Fixed Charge Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
6.6.1 Fixed Charge Example-Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . 147
6.6.2 Linking Constraints with “Big M” . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
6.6.3 Fixed Charge Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
6.7 Model Results and Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
7 More Integer Programming Models 157
7.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
7.2 Revisiting the Warehouse Location Problem . . . . . . . . . . . 157
7.2.1 Implementing the Warehouse Model . . . . . . . . . . . 159
7.2.2 Solving the Warehouse Location Problem . . . . . . . . 165
7.2.3 Warehouse Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
7.3 Solving MIPs with Different Solvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
7.3.1 Performance of glpk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
7.3.2 Performance of symphony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
7.3.3 Performance of lpsolve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
7.3.4 Performance of gurobi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
7.3.5 Comparing Results across Solvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
7.3.6 Popularity of LP Solvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
7.4 Solving Sudoku Puzzles using Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . 184
7.4.1 Introduction to Sudoku and Optimization . . . . . . . . 184
7.4.2 Formulating the Sudoku Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
7.4.3 Implementing Sudoku in ompr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
7.4.4 Sudoku Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192