| Article ID: | iaor19951871 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 62 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 1 |
| End Page Number: | 14 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1993 |
| Journal: | Mathematical Programming |
| Authors: | Hoffman Alan J., Brucker Peter, Bein Wolfgang W. |
| Keywords: | programming: transportation, transportation: general |
The authors study the concept of series and parallel composition of linear programming problems and show that greedy properties are inherited by such compositions. The present results are inspired by earlier work on compositions of flow problems. The authors make use of certain Monge properties as well as convexity properties which support the greedy method in other contexts.