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Double Treatment in Product Mixture Problem Data Hyperparametric Function and SuperHyperparametric Function
* Corresponding author: E-mail address: jdidmaisam@gmail.com (M.A. Jdid)
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Abstract
The fundamental focus of operations research is the existence of a problem requiring decision-making. The need for operations research methods increases as the complexity of the problem increases. One important method in operations research is linear programming, which relies on translating the actual situation under study into a linear mathematical model consisting of an objective function and constraints. This method uses data collected from the situation by experts. As we know, this data is suitable for operating conditions similar to those in which it was collected. In other words, this data is subject to change depending on the surrounding conditions. In light of this uncertainty, it was necessary to devise scientific methods suitable for all circumstances. In classical studies, researchers in the field of operations research introduced sensitivity analysis and parametric programming. This method is an expansion of sensitivity analysis because parametric programming studies the effect of simultaneous changes in the data when the coefficients change as a function of a single parameter. It also examines the effect of continuous changes in the coefficients of the objective function and the right-hand side of the constraints on the optimal solution. It provides us with a set of optimal acceptable solutions to the problem under study. In this research, we present a new approach to the product mix problem that aims to reformulate the mathematical model of this problem using the parametric programming method, which is an extension of sensitivity analysis, where the effect of simultaneous changes in the data is studied when the coefficients change as a function of a single parameter, Double treatment in product mixture problem data hyperparametric function and superhyperparametric function and the concept of a Hyperfunction, which associates each of the acceptable values provided by the model study using parametric programming to a subset of outputs. This generalizes classical parametric programming to represent multi-valued results. We will also reformulate it using parametric programming and SuperHyperFunction, through which sets (or groups of sets) are associated with values of higher-order power sets, which enables us to capture complex hierarchical or layered uncertainties. This enables us to obtain solutions that fit all the conditions that the operating environment of the system under study may experience.
Keywords
Operations research
linear programming
neutrosophic logic
Hyperfunction
SuperHyperFunction
Parametric programming
Hyperparametric function
SuperHyperparametric function
product mixture problem
1. Introduction
In all production institutions, for workflow to be optimal and achieve maximum profit, they must rely on a scientific study that determines the quantities of each product that must be produced using available resources (raw materials, labor, and working hours). The use of operations research methods fulfills the ambition of decision-makers in production institutions to obtain the greatest profit and lowest cost by transforming the issue under study into a mathematical model. In other words, a mathematical model is a simplified representation of a practical system from real life or a proposed idea for an executable system. The mathematical model is constructed based on data provided by experts. This data, collected under specific conditions, is subject to change with the changing circumstances surrounding the work environment. Therefore, the optimal solution for these models is appropriate for conditions similar to those in which the data was collected. To obtain an optimal solution suitable for all possible conditions in the work environment, researchers in the field of operations research have developed methods that consider all changes and help decision-makers make optimal decisions appropriate for all circumstances. In older studies, sensitivity analysis and intermediate programming were used (Taha, 2006; Bakaja Ji et al.,1998), while in more recent studies, we have used Neutrosophic logic is a new vision of modeling designed to effectively address the uncertainties inherent in the real world. It replaces binary logic, which recognizes right and wrong, by introducing a third, neutral state that can be interpreted as indeterminate or uncertain. This can be used to reformulate linear mathematical models and some algorithms used to find their optimal solution (Jdid and Khalid,2022; Jdid and Smarandache, 2023; Jdid et al.,2022; Smarandache and Jdid, 2023). To keep pace with the significant development of this logic, see Jdid et al., 2025, and Smarandache, 2016. In this research, we present a new study that doubles the uncertainty in the product mix problem data by reformulating the problem using parametric programming and the concept of a Hyperfunction, which associates each of the acceptable values provided by the model study using parametric programming to a subset of outputs. This generalizes classical parametric programming to represent multi-valued results. We will also reformulate it using parametric programming and SuperHyperFunction, through which sets (or groups of sets) are associated with values of higher-order power sets, which enables us to capture complex hierarchical or layered uncertainties. This enables us to obtain solutions that fit all the conditions that the operating environment of the system under study may experience
2. Discussion
The profit of any company that can produce a number of products is affected by the optimal selection of products that it will produce. To help these companies choose the products that achieve the maximum profit, operations research introduced the linear programming method, which uses data provided by experts to build a linear mathematical model whose optimal solution helps decision makers in the company to make the ideal decision and determine the optimal combination that achieves the maximum profit. The optimal solution depends on the data collected about the issue under study, and this data is subject to change according to the conditions in the work environment, meaning that it is uncertain data. To address the state of uncertainty, we present this study, which combines the old methods presented by researchers in the field of operations research and modern studies.
2.1. Product mixture problem
2.1.1. General formula for the product mixture problem
Firm produces a product type and requires of raw materials, of which the available quantities are . The requirements for each of these products for each of the raw materials are shown in Table 1.
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Products Raw materials |
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| ----------------- | ||||
| ----------------- | ||||
| ------------------ | ----------------- | ----------------- | ----------------- | |
| ----------------- |
In addition to the raw materials, producing these products requires labor hours, of which labor hours are available. Each unit of each product has a cost. Table 2 shows the labor hours required for each unit of each product, and the cost.
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Products Working hours - Cost |
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| Working hours | ----------------- | |||
| Cost | ----------------- |
It is required to formulate the appropriate mathematical model through which the company can determine the optimal product mix at the lowest possible cost.
Mathematical model No. (1):
Let . The quantities of products produced, respectively
Find:
Subject to:
2.1.2. Practical application no. (1)
A battery factory produces two different types of batteries: . It uses three types of raw materials: , of which the following quantities are available: , respectively. These products require labor hours. The total labor hours available in the factory are . Given that:
One unit of the first type of battery requires of the three raw materials, respectively.
One unit of the second type of battery requires of the three raw materials, respectively.
One unit of the first type of battery requires labor hours, while one unit of the second type of battery requires labor hours.
The cost of one unit of the first type of battery is , and the cost of one unit of the second type of battery is . We need to formulate an appropriate mathematical model that will enable the company to determine the optimal product mix at the lowest possible cost.
To construct the appropriate mathematical model, let be the quantity produced of the first type of battery and be the quantity produced of the second type of battery. We then obtain the following mathematical model:
Find:
Subject to:
We have obtained a classical linear mathematical model, and we can obtain its optimal solution using either the graphical method or the simplex method.
2.2. Parametric programming: (Taha, 2006; Bakaja Ji et al., 1998)
It is an extension of sensitivity analysis because it studies the effect of simultaneous changes in the data when the coefficients change as a function of a single parameter. To illustrate the idea of parametric programming and how it can be used for treatment in product mixture problem data, we study the following two cases:
2.2.1. The parametric cost problem
In intermediate programming, we replace in the objective function with the intermediate function . Then we write the mathematical model No. (1): as follows:
Mathematical model No. (2, c):
Find:
Subject to:
where is the cost vector, is the cost variation vector, and is a positive or negative unknown parameter. Changing the value of changes the cost coefficients for all variables; what interests us is determining the set of optimal solutions for all values of in the range from to .
Practical application No. (1) is written as follows:
2.2.2. Practical application No. (2, c)
If the vector of change of cost is .
Find:
Subject to:
We obtained a linear neutrosophic mathematical model, and we can obtain its optimal solution using the graphical method or the simplex method used to solve the linear neutrosophic models, as explained in two research paepers (Jdid and Smarandache, 2023; Jdid et al., 2022).
2.3. Parametric right-hand-side problem
The right-hand side constants in a linear programming problem represent the limits imposed on the available resources (labor, raw materials, working hours, etc.), which will necessarily affect the output. The resources are not necessarily independent of each other. In a practical problem, it is very likely that a shortage of one resource will be accompanied by a shortage of other resources, to varying degrees. This, in turn, will affect the output.
In all problems, we take into account simultaneous changes in the right-hand side constants when these changes depend on a single parameter, and study their effects on the optimal solution. Therefore, we take the right-hand side with the parameters , and the critical values for are determined from the following condition. Then we write the mathematical model No. (1): as follows:
2.3.1. Mathematical model no. (2, b)
Find:
Subject to:
right-hand vector known.
vector variations.
unknown parameter.
The values of the right-hand constants change whenever the value of the parameter changes. Our interest is to determine the optimal set of solutions for all values of between and .
Practical application No. (1) is written as follows:
2.3.2. Practical application no. (2, b)
Find:
Subject to:
We obtained a linear neutrosophic mathematical model, and we can obtain its optimal solution using the graphical method or the simplex method used to solve the linear neutrosophic models, as explained in the two research papers (Jdid and Smarandache, 2023; Jdid et al., 2022).
2.4. Formulation of parametric programming using the concept of a hyperfunction
Hyperoperation [7,10]:
A hyperoperation is a generalization of a binary operation where the result of combining two elements is a set, not a single element. Formally, for a set , a hyperoperation is defined as:
Hyperfunction (Fujita and Smarandache, 2025):
A Hyperfunction is a function where the domain remains a classical set , but the codomain is extended to the powerset of , denoted . Formally, a Hyperfunction f is defined as:
Is a subset of .
2.4.1. Hyperparametric programming - linear objective function
The Hyperparametric cost problem:
Let be the quantities produced of products .
We take the vector of variations . Then the coefficient of the variables in the objective function is equal to , where is an unknown parameter, positive or negative.
Where:
The hyperparametric linear objective function is defined as:
Since the optimal solution is associated with the critical value , for each acceptable value of the parameter , a hyperparametric linear objective function is defined as follows:
This function assigns to each decision vector a set of acceptable optimal values
This means we will obtain a set of acceptable optimal solution sets, eliminating uncertainty and adapting to all possible conditions in the work environment.
3. Result
For each acceptable value of the parameter , the objective function is a hyperfunction, from which we obtain a set of acceptable optimal values for the decision vector . This means we obtain a set of acceptable optimal solution sets, eliminating uncertainty and adapting to all possible conditions in the working environment.
Therefore, mathematical model No. (1) is written as follows:
Mathematical model (3, c):
Find:
Subject to:
Where:
Practical application No. (1) is written as follows:
Practical application No. (3, c):
Let
Find:
Subject to:
Here we are required to use the information given in (Jdid and Smarandache, 2023; Jdid et al., 2022) to solve the following two neutrosophic linear models:
First Model:
Conditions:
The second model:
Conditions:
The optimal solution is:
This example illustrates how models cost uncertainty in parametric programming.
3.1. Forming parametric programming using the concept of a SuperHyperFunction:
Using the following definitions:
3.1.1. SuperHyperOperations (Smarandache, 2024)
Let be a non-empty set, and let be the -th powerset of .
Define:
A SuperHyperOperation of order (m, n) is an -ary operation:
If the codomain excludes the empty set, it is classical-type; if it includes it, it is Neutrosophic-type.
A SuperHyperFunction extends this idea further by mapping sets (or sets of sets) to higher-order powerset values, thereby capturing complex hierarchical or layered uncertainties. We explore the use of SuperHyperFunction in Parametric Programming specifically the SuperHyperparametric cost problem:
3.1.2. Linear objective n-SuperHyperfunction (Jdid et al., 2025)
Let be the decision space and a nonempty compact set of coefficient vectors. Define for each
and recursively for :
the family of all nonempty subsets of .
Then,
is called the Linear Objective -SuperHyperfunction.
Let be the quantities produced of products .
We take the vector of variations . Then the coefficient of the variables in the objective function is equal to , where is an unknown parameter, positive or negative.
and recursively for :
the family of all nonempty subsets of .
Then
, Is called the parametric objective -SuperHyperfunction.
To write mathematical model No. (1) using the SuperHyperparametric function:
We take the cost vector and the variation vector ,
Let
be the decision space for producing products. Suppose the cost per unit is uncertain under three scenarios:
First-level objective values:
Second and third levels:
Concrete combinations:
Consider the linear parametric model:
minimize:
subject to:
Here, minimizing the third-level SuperHyperfunction captures hierarchical profit uncertainty across all single-scenario, two-scenario, and three-scenario combinations.
This summarizes cost uncertainty via interval .
3.1.3. Linear cost hyperparametric
Let be the allocation space, and let be a nonempty compact set of possible marginal-cost vectors.
Linear Cost Hyperparametric is the mapping:
which assigns to each allocation the set of all possible cost values as varies over .
Practical application No. (1) is written as follows:
Practical application No. (4, c):
To build the appropriate mathematical model, let be the quantity produced from the first type of batteries and be the quantity produced from the second type of batteries. Then we get the following mathematical model:
Due to stakeholder disagreement, the marginal-cost vector lies in:
Let
Then:
Resource constraints are:
A robust-optimistic linear program uses the extremal values of the Hyperparametric:
We solve:
minimize:
Subject to:
Here also we solve two linear neutrosophy models as in the previous study.
4. Conclusions
In this research, we present a study of the product mix problem, aiming to reformulate the mathematical model that represents it using the concept of parametric programming. The solution to the model we obtain provides an acceptable optimal solution for every acceptable value of the parameter when the cost vector changes according to the surrounding conditions. To obtain highly accurate optimal solutions, we used the concept of hyperfunctions and hyper hyperfunctions to formulate the problem with other mathematical models. Since hyperfunctions and hyper hyperfunctions link each input to a subset of outputs that is, they link sets (or groups of sets) to values of higher-order power sets the optimal solution to these models enables them to capture complex, hierarchical, or stratified uncertainty situations suitable for all possible operating environment conditions. Since the primary goal of this research is to present various mathematical models for the product mix problem, we note the following: any researcher interested in obtaining solutions to the models we have arrived at in this research can use the methods provided by classical operations research and the modern studies we presented in (Jdid and Smarandache, 2023; Jdid et al., 2022).
Acknowledgement
The authors are thankful to the journal reviewers for their constructive comments and feedback.
CRediT authorship contribution statement
Maissam Ahmad Jdid: Conceptualization, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. Florentin Smarandache: Conceptualization, writing—review and editing. All authors reviewed and gave their approval for the final manuscript.
Declaration of competing interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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