Finding all vertices of a convex polyhedron

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 12 - Trang 226-229 - 1968
Miroslav Maňas1, Josef Nedoma2
1Dept. of Econometrics, School of Economics, Praha, CSSR
2Econometric Laboratory, Institute of Economics, Praha, CSSR

Tóm tắt

The paper describes an algorithm for finding all vertices of a convex polyhedron defined by a system of linear equations and by non-negativity conditions for variables. The algorithm is described using terminology of the theory of graphs and it seems to provide a computationally effective method. An illustrative example and some experiences with computations on a computer are given.

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