Overview of Week 9
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Reading Assignment:
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Homework Assignment:
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Vocabulary List:
- Section 6: Sensitivity Analysis
- What is the fundamental block matrix product that shows how
every simplex tableau can be obtained by multiplying the initial tableau
on the left by a nonsingular matrix?
- tableau approach to sensitivity analysis (block matrix structure)
- break-even price
- reduced cost
- marginal values
- shadow prices
- objective coefficient range
- right hand side (or resource) range
- pricing out
- the fundamental theorem on sensitivity analysis
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Key Concepts:
- Section 5:
- vertices
- geometry of duality
- geometry of degeneracy
- Section 6:
- What is the fundamental block matrix product that shows how
every simplex tableau can be obtained by multiplying the initial tableau
on the left by a nonsingular matrix?
- tableau approach to sensitivity analysis (block matrix structure)
- break-even price
- reduced cost
- marginal values
- shadow prices
- objective coefficient range
- right hand side (or resource) range
- pricing out
- the fundamental theorem on sensitivity analysis
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Skills to Master:
- Apply the dual simplex algorithm
- computing break-even prices
- computing ranges (cost coefficients and right-hand sides)
- pricing out a new activity
- solving sensitivity analysis word problems
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Quiz:
Thanksgiving Break