Sensitivity analysis and uncertainty in linear programming

Sensitivity analysis and uncertainty in linear programming

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Article ID: iaor20042336
Country: United States
Volume: 33
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 53
End Page Number: 60
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Journal: Interfaces
Authors: ,
Keywords: philosophy
Abstract:

Linear programming (LP) is one of the great successes to emerge from operations research and management science. It is well developed and widely used. LP problems in practice are often based on numerical data that represent rough approximations of quantities that are inherently difficult to estimate. Because of this, most LP-based studies include a postoptimality investigation of how a change in the data changes the solution. Researchers routinely undertake this type of sensitivity analysis (SA), and most commercial packages for solving linear programs include the results of such an analysis as part of the standard output report. SA has shortcomings that run contrary to conventional wisdom. Alternate models address these shortcomings.

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