Steve Jacobsen (jacobsen@ee.ucla.edu), Khosrow Moshirvaziri (moshir@ee.ucla.edu) LINEAR REVERSE CONVEX MINIMIZATION PROBLEM (m=7; ntot=27, of which 13 are involved in the reverse convex fuction): ** This problem is taken from "An Algorithm for Optimizing Network Flow ** Capacity Under Economies-of-Scale", JOTA, (1975), by Bansal and Jacobsen ** The optimal x, stated below, found by edge search is the same as ** that reported in the above reference. max v Ef -vq =0 f - x < u g(x) < B x,f >0 where E is the 7x13 node-arc incidence matrix of a directed graph, the m-vector q=(1,0,0,0,0,0,-1)', f is the 13-vector of flow variables, x is the 13-vector of arc capacity increments, u is the 13-vector of initial arc capacities, g is the cost of the capacity increment vector x, v is the value of the flow from node0 to noden, and B is the value of the budget that's available for capacity increases. The problem is to allocate the budget B to the arcs of the graph so as to maximize the value of the flow from the source, node0, to the sink, noden. E= 0,1 0,2 0,4 1,3 1,5 2,1 2,3 2,5 3,4 3,n 4,5 4,n 5,n node0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 node1 -1 0 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 node2 0 -1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 node3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 -1 0 1 1 0 0 0 node4 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 0 node5 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 -1 0 0 -1 0 1 noden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 -1 -1 B = 10 u = 1 2 3 3 5 0 5 20 15 10 10 6 4 g(x) = x(0,1)/10+x(0,2)/4+sqrt(x(0,4))+(-1+sqrt(1+2*x(1,3)))+x(1,5)**0.75 +sqrt(x(2,1))+sqrt(x(2,3)/2)+sqrt(x(2,5))+x(3,4)**0.25+x(3,n)/3+x(4,5)/4 +x(4,n)+sqrt(x(5,n)) optimal capacity expansion variables x = x(0,1) = 7.000000000000000e+00 x(0,2) = 2.015603865200235e+01 x(0,4) = 0.000000000000000e+00 x(1,3) = 0.000000000000000e+00 x(1,5) = 0.000000000000000e+00 x(2,1) = 0.000000000000000e+00 x(2,3) = 0.000000000000000e+00 x(2,5) = 0.000000000000000e+00 x(3,4) = 0.000000000000000e+00 x(3,n) = 0.000000000000000e+00 x(4,5) = 0.000000000000000e+00 x(4,n) = 0.000000000000000e+00 x(5,n) = 1.815603865200235e+01 v* = -3.315603865200236e+01