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Problems Section
Network Flow Programming Models
 - Crew Assignment

The rows of the table below represent work crews and the columns represent jobs. The entries in the table show the costs of doing the jobs with the various crews, for instance the entry in row C3 and column J1 is the cost of doing job 1 with crew 3. An entry of M indicates that the crew cannot do the associated job. All the jobs must be done, but not all the crews need be assigned. Each crew can do at most one job. The problem is to select a crew for each job so that total cost is minimized.

 

J1

J2

J3

J4

C1

M

8

6

12

C2

15

12

7

M

C3

10

M

5

14

C4

12

M

12

16

C5

18

17

M

M

C6

M

13

M

14


  
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