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How is the assignment linear program different from the transportation model?

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Transportation problem: Transportation problem, typically, deals with planning for distribution of goods and services from number of supply points to number of demand points. Supply points are also called as source nodes and demand points are also called as destination nodes. There are can multiple assignment situations in ...

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