INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODELS by Jiza Garcia
INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODELS by Jiza Garcia
Total integer model - all the decision variables are required to have integer solution values
EXAMPLE : A community council must decide which recreation facilities to construct in its
community. Four new recreation facilities have been proposed—a swimming pool, a tennis
center, an athletic field, and a gymnasium. The council wants to construct facilities that will
maximize the expected daily usage by the residents of the community, subject to land and cost
limitations. The expected daily usage and cost and land requirements for each facility follow
The community has a $120,000 construction budget and 12 acres of land. Because the
swimming pool and tennis center must be built on the same part of the land parcel, however,
only one of these two facilities can be constructed. The council wants to know which of the
recreation facilities to construct to maximize the expected daily usage.
FORMULA: x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 = 2
where
x1 = construction of a swimming pool
x2 = construction of a tennis center
x3 = construction of an athletic field
x4 = construction of a gymnasium
0–1 integer model - all the decision variables have integer values of zero or one
mixed integer model - , some of the decision variables (but not all) are required to have
integer solutions