| Article ID: | iaor20071493 |
| Country: | China |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 44 |
| End Page Number: | 46 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2005 |
| Journal: | Operational Research and Management Science |
| Authors: | Xie Fanrong |
When the table-manipulation method is used to solve the transportation problem with balanced supply and demand and the case degenerate, more accurate rules, which can avoid possibly redundant calculations, are presented for filling zeroes in corresponding blanks of the balanced table. The method and procedure, by which the improved table-manipulation method is used to solve the assignment problem, are also presented in the paper, and the method has the advantage of more simplicity and convenience over the Hungarian Method often used for solving the assignment problem if manual calculation is used.