[AMPL 2626] Re: Condicions in AMPL function

> The value of x and y changes from what?  Did you previously have a way
> of solving the problem?
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> If you have a known optimal solution, check whether this approach
> gives the same objective value but different x and y.  If the
> objective value is the same, you have multiple optimal solutions.
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> Another possibility, if M is very large, is that rounding error may be
> causing issues.  You generally want the smallest value of M for which
> you can be confident that |x-y| < M.
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> On May 27, 6:53 am,plozmar<lozano_pal...@...> wrote:
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> > Thanks so much, but now I have problems with the parameter M because
> > it makes that the result optimization of the variables x and y
> > changes, I don´t know why. I take a big number (sufficiently large
> > that |x-y|) the values of x and y changes (and the program doesn´t
> > work ok) Why is it?
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> > Thanks for all
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> > On 26 mayo, 22:37, Paul <ru...@...> wrote:
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> > > I assume x and y are variables?  You'll need to introduce a binary
> > > variable.
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> > > var z;  # objective value
> > > var b binary;  # decides which of x and y is smaller
> > > param M > 0;  # sufficiently large parameter that |x-y| < M for all
> > > feasible x, y
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> > > minimize totalcost: z;
> > > s.t. IfXSmaller: z >= x - M*b;
> > > s.t. IfYSmaller: z >= y - M*(1-b);
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> > > On May 26, 5:12 am,plozmar<lozano_pal...@...> wrote:
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> > > > Hi,
> > > > now I want to make this, using CPLEX
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> > > > minimize totalcost:
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> > > >  min(x,y)
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> > > > How can I implement this statement? Can I with this solver?
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