The provided code implements the Vogel's Approximation Method (VAM) for solving transportation problems, where the goal is to minimize the total transportation cost from several suppliers to several ...

The NorthWest Corner Method is a basic approach that starts at the top-left (northwest) cell of the cost matrix and allocates as much as possible to that cell, then moves either down or right, ...

Abstract: We propose a new algorithm that breaks ties in the allocation decision making process and improves the performance of the standard Vogel’s approximation method (VAM). The proposed algorithm ...

Abstract: Vogel's Approximation Method (VAM) is one of the methods to find Initial Basic Feasible Solution (IBFS) of Transportation Problem (TP), which is mostly used to find the solution with minimum ...

ABSTRACT: We present a direct analytical algorithm for solving transportation problems with quadratic function cost coefficients. The algorithm uses the concept of absolute points developed by the ...