Assignment 3: Job Man 1 2 3 4 5 I II III IV V
Assignment 3: Job Man 1 2 3 4 5 I II III IV V
Assignment 3: Job Man 1 2 3 4 5 I II III IV V
1. Explain the Hungarian Assignment method. Is it better than other methods of solving assignment problem?
How?
2. What is unbalanced assignment problem? How is Hungarian Assignment method applied in respect of such
a problem?
6. Five jobs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are to be assigned to five persons A, B, C, D and E. the time taken (in minutes) by
each of them on each job is given below:
1 2 3 4 5
A 16 13 17 19 20
B 14 12 13 16 17
C 14 11 12 17 18
D 5 5 8 8 11
E 3 3 8 8 10
Work out the optimal assignment and the total minimum time taken.
7. A national truck-rental service has a surplus of one truck in each of the cities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; and a deficit of
one truck in each of the cities 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. The distances (in Kms.) between the cities with a
surplus and the cities with a deficit are displayed below:
To
From
7 8 9 10 11 12
1 31 62 29 42 15 41
2 12 19 39 55 71 40
3 17 29 50 41 22 22
4 35 40 38 42 27 33
5 19 30 29 16 20 23
6 72 30 30 50 41 20
How should the trucks be dispersed so as to minimize the total distance travelled?
8. A department head has six jobs and five subordinates. The subordinates differ in their efficiency and the
tasks differ in their intrinsic difficulty. The department head estimates the time each man would take to
perform each task as given in the effectiveness matrix below:
TASK
MAN
A B C D E F
1 20 15 26 40 32 12
2 15 32 46 26 28 20
3 11 15 2 12 6 14
4 8 24 12 22 22 20
5 12 20 18 10 22 15
Only one task can be assigned to one man. Determine how the jobs should be allocated so as to minimize
the total man-hours. Find the minimum total man-hours.
9. An airline, operating seven days a week, has given the following schedule of its flights between New Delhi
and Mumbai. The crews should have a minimum of five hours between the flights. Obtain the pairing of
flights that minimizes layover time away from home. For any given pairing, the crew will be based at the
city that results in the smallest layover.
New Delhi- Mumbai Mumbai-New Delhi
10. Two firms are competing for business under the condition so that one firms gain is another firms loss.
Firm As payoff matrix is given below:
Firm B
Firm A
No advertising Medium advertising Heavy advertising
No advertising 10 5 -2
Medium advertising 13 12 15
Heavy advertising 16 14 10
Suggest optimum strategies for the two firms and the net outcome thereof.
11. Solve the following game:
Player B
Player A
I II III IV
I 3 2 4 0
II 3 4 2 4
III 4 2 4 0
IV 0 4 0 8
12. Use the notion of dominance to simplify the rectangular game with the following payoff:
Player B Player B
Player Player
A I II III IV A I II III IV
I 18 4 6 4 I 1 2 3 -1
II 6 2 13 7 II 2 2 1 5
III 11 5 17 3 III 3 1 0 -2
IV 4 3 2 6
IV 7 6 12 2
C.
Player B
1 2
5 4
-7 9
Player A
-4 -3
2 1
d.
Player B
-4 3
-7 1
-2 -4
Player A
-5 -2
-1 -6