I am teaching an Intro GAMS class at a government agency, and I was thinking about doing a shortest path model as LP. There are lots of interesting angles from a modeling perspective, at least I think so. I can talk easily for an hour or more just about that. But now I read this is all just fodder:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortest_path_problemGiven a directed graph (V, A) with source node s, target node t, and cost wij for each arc (i, j) in A, consider the program with variables xij
- minimize
subject to
and for all i,
This LP, which is common fodder for operations research courses, has the special property that it is integral
subject to
and for all i, 