| Article ID: | iaor19971584 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 42 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 624 |
| End Page Number: | 627 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1996 |
| Journal: | Management Science |
| Authors: | White D.J. |
| Keywords: | optimization |
In this technical note the paper examines a method of extending a problem over a finite set of actions, to a problem of maximising a function over a bi-product set. The solution set is characterised in terms of fixed point solutions and partial solutions, and two improvement algorithms are given.