[Haskell-cafe] Vague: Assembly line process

[Yitzchak Gale]

Alexander Solla wrote:
> ...and (probably) the most efficient production plan given the
> costs of his inputs.  This is a problem I am going to have to solve
> programmatically, too. I intend on solving it by finding the input in a
> given category of necessary inputs with the lowest average cost per unit.
>  I'm not concerned about "hard" cost allocation limits -- i.e. it's okay for
> the firm to buy more of an input than might be necessary for another output
> as long as the average unit cost is the lowest (since all the inputs will be
> used eventually anyway).  Hard allocation complicates the problem, since you
> have an upper bound on what you can spend, and you want to spend it most
> effectively, presumably with as little "waste" of available cash as
> possibile.  Bin packing.

This is Linear Programming:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_programming

Regards,
Yitz