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Solving a quadratic fractional problem via a new quadratic formulation

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pp. 1–15Vol. 47Issue 1January 2026DOI: 10.47974/JIOS-1224XML
Received:
04 May 2022
Published Online:
03 Feb 2025
Article type:
Research Article
Language:
EN
Article no.:
JIOS-1224
Pages:
1–15

Abstract

We present two different techniques for solving a quadratic fractional program. The first one uses Taylor’s development which makes it possible to transform the quadratic fractional programming problem into an equivalent linear programming problem that will be solved via an interior point approach. The second one allows us to transform the quadratic fractional programming problem into an equivalent quadratic program that will be solved by an efficient algorithm for this class of problems. The established comparative numerical tests show that the algorithm works properly and confirms the effectiveness of our proposed techniques.

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