A Cottonpickin' Cotton Ginning Problem

Abstract

In the Mesilla Valley of New Mexico there are 150 cotton farmers and 20 cotton gins. The weekly cotton picking and the weekly gin capacities are known, as well as the transportation and ginning costs. The objective is to determine not only the shipping schedule for shipping cotton to gins but also which gins should be opened. The paper shows how network analysis can be used not only to visualize such a model but also to develop a computationally feasible algorithm.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0783074

Entities

People

  • Darwin Dee Klingman
  • Paul H. Randolph
  • Stephen W. Fuller

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Classification
  • Commerce
  • Equations
  • Flow Network
  • Integer Programming
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Military Research
  • New Mexico
  • Nonlinear Programming
  • Operations Research
  • Production
  • Shipping
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Agricultural and Food sciences

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Industrial Economics
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.