Optimizing a Single Alternative with a Single Decision Variable
The simplest optimization analysis is when there is only one alternative and its value is determined by a single decision variable.
Cost = F(DecisionVariable)
Suppose that Zymurgenics is in the middle of upgrading software for their inventory management system. One of the modifications to increase performance is to distribute the application and run the parts on separate processors. A network communication link will be needed to connect the parts. One part of the application will generate requests to another part, and the requests are created at a rate where there would be too much network overhead if each request were sent separately. Zymurgenics developers decide to queue the requests ...
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