# The Problem Of Programme Allocation ###### tags: `Kantorovich, L.V.` ###### tags: `The Best Use of Economic Resources` * $n$ different products (kind of operations) * $m$ production unit (factories, machines,...) * $i=1,2,...,m$ / $j=1,2,...,n$ * $a_{ij}$ units of $j$th product are produced by $i$th per unit of time * $h_{ij}$ the fraction of the working time of the $i$th spent on the production of the $j$th product ## Problem A $\{a_{ij}\} (i=1,...,m; j=1,...,n)$, $k_j>0(j=1,...,n)$ with $\underset {1 \leqq i \leqq m}{max} a_{ij}>0 (j=1,...,n)$ Find the plan $\pi = \{h_{ij}\} (i=1,...,m; j=1,...,n)$ satisfying the following conditions: 1. $h_{ij} \geqq 0$ 2. $\sum_{j=1}^n h_{ij}\quad \leqq 1 (i=1,...,m)$ 3. The quantity $\mu (\pi)=\underset {1 \leqq j \leqq n}{min} \frac {x^n_j} {k_j}$, where