Quantitative Analysis for Management, 13/e

Chapter 10 Integer Programming, Goal Programming, and Nonlinear Programming

Learning Objectives

After completing this chapter, students will be able to:

1. 10.1 Understand the difference between LP and integer programming.

2. 10.2 Formulate and solve the three types of integer programming problems.

3. 10.3 Formulate and solve goal programming problems using Excel and QM for Windows.

4. 10.4 Formulate and solve nonlinear programming problems using Excel.

This chapter presents a series of other important mathematical programming models that arise when some of the basic assumptions of LP are made more or less restrictive. For example, one assumption of LP is that decision variables can take on fractional values such as $X_1=0.33,X_2=1.57,\text{ or }{X}_3=\mathrm{109.4\; ...}$