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Industrial Engineering

INE3009 Operations Research II


Fall 2018

Problem Set 5
th
7 November, 2018
1. Find the shortest path from node 1 to node 10 in the network shown in Figure 1 via dynamic
programming.

Figure 1: Network for Problem 1

2. A sales representative lives in Bloomington and must be in Indianapolis next Thursday. On


each of the days Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, he can sell his wares in Indianapolis, Bloom-
ington or Chicago. From past experience, he believes that he can earn $12 from spending a
day in Indianapolis, $16 from spending a day in Bloomington and $17 from spending a day in
Chicago.Where should he spend the first three days and nights of the week to maximize his sales
income less travel costs? Travel costs are shown in Table 1.

Table 1: Travel costs

To
From Indianapolis Bloomington Chicago
Indianapolis - $5 $2
Bloomington $5 - $7
Chicago $2 $7 -

References:
1) Winston, Wayne L., and Jeffrey B. Goldberg. 2004. Operations research: applications and algo-
rithms. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Brooks/Cole.
2) Taha, Hamdy A. 2006. Operations Research: An Introduction (8th Edition) Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA.

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