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Re: [Help-glpk] rfe: change confusing "Crashing..." message
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Andrew Makhorin |
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Re: [Help-glpk] rfe: change confusing "Crashing..." message |
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Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:00:33 +0300 |
>> "Crashing" is a technique used to produce a good starting basis for the
>> simplex method. This term is widely used; see for example:
>> http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/or/lpadv.html .
> Whence the term "crashing"?
> It never did make any sense to me.
I used to frequently meet this technical term in the litearure.
Not sure, but I think the term "crashing" was introduced in MPS/360.
For example, the IBM OSL library has a "crash" routine named ekkcrsh,
which is used to get a good starting basis.