A study on constructing a good initial basis in the simplex method

단체법에서의 초기기저 구성에 관한 연구

Constructing an initial basis is an important process in the simplex method. An initial basis greatly affects the number of iterations of iterations and the execution time in the simplex method. The purpose of this paper is to construct a good initial basis. First, to avoid linear dependency among the chosen columns, an enhanced Gaussian elimination method and a method using non-duplicated nonzero elements are developed. Second, for an order to choose variables, the sparsity of the column is used. Experimenal results show that the proposed method can reduce the number of iterations and the execution time compared with Bixby's method by 12%.