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Visualizing Multidimensional Linear Programming Problems

Nikolay A. Olkhovsky·Leonid B. Sokolinsky
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The article proposes an n-dimensional mathematical model of the visual representation of a linear programming problem. This model makes it possible to use artificial neural networks to solve multidimensional linear optimization problems, the feasible region of which is a bounded non-empty set. To visualize the linear programming problem, an objective hyperplane is introduced, the orientation of which is determined by the gradient of the linear objective function: the gradient is the normal to the objective hyperplane. In the case of searching a maximum, the objective hyperplane is positioned in such a way that the value of the objective function at all its points exceeds the value of the objective function at all points of the feasible region, which is a bounded convex polytope. For an arbitrary point of the objective hyperplane, the objective projection onto the polytope is determined: the closer the objective projection point is to the objective hyperplane, the greater the value of the objective function at this point. Based on the objective hyperplane, a finite regular set of points is constructed, called the receptive field. Using objective projections, an image of a polytope is constructed. This image includes the distances from the receptive points to the corresponding points of the polytope surface. Based on the proposed model, parallel algorithms for visualizing a linear programming problem are constructed. An analytical estimation of its scalability is performed. Information about the software implementation and the results of large-scale computational experiments confirming the efficiency of the proposed approaches are presented.

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Nikolay A. Olkhovsky, Leonid B. Sokolinsky. 2022-04-06. Visualizing Multidimensional Linear Programming Problems. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11623-0_13

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