Technical Note—Mathematical Pitfalls in the One Machine Multiproduct Economic Lot Scheduling Problem

Paul J. Schweitzer and Edward A. Silver
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Paul J. Schweitzer: University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Edward A. Silver: University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Operations Research, 1983, vol. 31, issue 2, 401-405

Abstract: We consider a group of products sharing the same piece of production equipment, and show that two mathematical problem formulations in the literature are ill-posed. In both cases, the infimum of the cost function occurs at a boundary point that is not feasible.

Keywords: 334; economic; lot; sizes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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