12.07.2015 Views

ILOG CPLEX 11.0 User's Manual

ILOG CPLEX 11.0 User's Manual

ILOG CPLEX 11.0 User's Manual

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

Figure 18.25f(x)4321x01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Figure 18.2 A discontinuous piecewise linear function with stepsReminder: It may help to understand the signature of the function in this example to recallthat in Cartesian coordinates, the slope of a horizontal line (that is, a line or segmentparallel to the x-axis) is 0 (zero), and the slope of a vertical line (that is, a line or segmentparallel to the y-axis) is undefined in the conventional representation:y=ax+bIn the signature of the function, the undefined slope of the vertical segment at the point ofdiscontinuity is represented as the height of the step.Isolated Points in Piecewise Linear FunctionsWhen you specify the same point more than twice as you declare a piecewise linear function,you inadvertently create an isolated point. <strong>ILOG</strong> <strong>CPLEX</strong> does not support isolated points.When it encounters an isolated point in the declaration of a piecewise linear function,<strong>ILOG</strong> <strong>CPLEX</strong> issues a warning and ignores the isolated point. An isolated point may appearas a visible point in the graph of a discontinues piecewise linear function. For example, thepoint (3, 2) would be an isolated point in Figure 18.2 and consequently ignored by<strong>ILOG</strong> <strong>CPLEX</strong>. Isolated points may also be less conspicuously visible; for example, if theheight of a step in a discontinuous piecewise linear function is 0 (zero), the isolated point<strong>ILOG</strong> <strong>CPLEX</strong> <strong>11.0</strong> — USER’ S MANUAL 341

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!