Linear Programming and Resource Allocation Modeling

Index

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• accounting loss  141, 183
  • activity levels  150, 189
  • optimal accounting loss figures  5, 10
• activity levels  8, 124, 284
  • interpreted as individual product levels  148–155
  • interpreted as individual resource levels  186–193
  • optimal/optimal output  4, 9
• activity vector
  • changing component of  210–215
  • multiactivity production function  129
  • parameterizing  245–256
• activity/activities
  • see also activity levels; activity vector
  • additive  129
  • composite  129, 132–133, 158
  • independent  130
  • input  1–2
  • marginal cost function for  276–284, 282t
  • output  6, 7, 183–185, 187, 190, 191
    • composite output activity  171
    • multiactivity joint‐production model  171–174
    • output activity mix  189
    • output activity vector  165
  • production  1, 4, 6, 123
  • quadratic programming and activity analysis  335–338
  • shadow  181
  • simple  123, 130
  • supply function for the output of  257–262
• additive activity  129
• additive identity  20
• additive inverse  20
• admissible solutions  298
• Alder, G.  162
• algebra
  • matrix  13–20
  • vector  20–22
• Allen, R.G.D.  123
• allocative efficiency (AE)  380, 383–384
• almost complementary basic solution  330–332
• artificial augmented structural constraint system  72
• artificial linear programming problem
  • inconsistency and redundancy  78, 81, 83
  • M‐Penalty method  73, 75–77
• artificial objective function  74
• artificial variables  73, 93, ...