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upper bound constraints and nonnegativity constraints, define a bounded feasible region for<br />

the x,, y, vecton.<br />

ouai 1 Riml<br />

Vector<br />

Vecior 1 Dimension<br />

Ph' 1 N<br />

1 Objective<br />

Table 4.1 General structure <strong>of</strong> multi-part mode1<br />

ni n qt n2 fi q? .... n m q~ RHS<br />

4.2 The Structure <strong>of</strong> Subproblems for the Fi Method<br />

4.2.1 The Bifurcation Process<br />

We fint divide the original multi-part probiem into an aggregated lower bound<br />

subproblem. denoted by PL, and an aggregated upper bound subproblem, denoted by Pu, by<br />

applyng the basic idea <strong>of</strong> paralle1 decomposition <strong>of</strong> two-part models to multi-part models.<br />

Agin. we divide the ag-gegated lower bound subproblem into its aggregated lower bound

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