Formulações para o Problema da Compra Mínima

  • Sandro H. C. Uliana Unicamp
  • Rafael C. S. Schouery Unicamp

Abstract


We consider the Min-Buying Problem, where a seller wants to sell a set I of items to a set B of buyers. Each buyer b is willing to pay up to vib for item i. For this, the seller must define prices pi for each i ∈ I in order to maximize his profit considering that each buyer b will buy, if any, the most unexpensive item among those that pi ≤ vib. In this paper, we present and compare two integer linear programming formulations for such a problem.

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Published
2023-08-06
ULIANA, Sandro H. C.; SCHOUERY, Rafael C. S.. Formulações para o Problema da Compra Mínima. In: PROCEEDINGS OF THE THEORY OF COMPUTATION MEETING (ETC), 8. , 2023, João Pessoa/PB. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2023 . p. 150-154. ISSN 2595-6116. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/etc.2023.230556.