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Combinatorial Method for Solving Systems of Linear Constraints

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This article considers a combinatorial method for computing the basis of the set of solutions to systems of linear constraints over the set of real numbers and an improved method for computing a minimal generating set of solutions over the set of natural numbers. A brief review of such methods in other discrete domains is presented.

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Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 4, pp. 14–26, July–August, 2014.

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Kryvyi, S.L. Combinatorial Method for Solving Systems of Linear Constraints. Cybern Syst Anal 50, 495–506 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10559-014-9638-0

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Keywords

  • linear constraint
  • linear Diophantine constraint
  • basis for a solution set