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Meaning of Assignment Problem:
An assignment problem is a particular case of transportation problem where the objective is to assign a number of resources to an equal number of activities so as to minimise total cost or maximize total profit of allocation.
The problem of assignment arises because available resources such as men, machines etc. have varying degrees of efficiency for performing different activities, therefore, cost, profit or loss of performing the different activities is different.
Thus, the problem is “How should the assignments be made so as to optimize the given objective”. Some of the problem where the assignment technique may be useful are assignment of workers to machines, salesman to different sales areas.
Definition of Assignment Problem:
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Suppose there are n jobs to be performed and n persons are available for doing these jobs. Assume that each person can do each job at a term, though with varying degree of efficiency, let c ij be the cost if the i-th person is assigned to the j-th job. The problem is to find an assignment (which job should be assigned to which person one on-one basis) So that the total cost of performing all jobs is minimum, problem of this kind are known as assignment problem.
The assignment problem can be stated in the form of n x n cost matrix C real members as given in the following table:
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The Eigenvalue Assignment for the Fractional Order Linear Time-Invariant Control Systems
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The eigenvalue assignment for the fractional order linear time-invariant control systems is addressed in this paper and the existence of the solution to this problem is also analyzed based on the controllability theory of the fractional order systems. According to the relationship between the solution to this problem and the solution to the nonlinear matrix equation, we propose a numerical algorithm via the matrix sign function method based on the rational iteration for solving this nonlinear matrix equation, which can circumvent the limitation of the assumption of linearly independent eigenvectors. Moreover, the proposed algorithm only needs to solve the linear system with multiple right-hand sides and it converges quadratically. Finally, the efficiency of the proposed approach is shown through numerical examples.
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