The death of mathematician George Dantzig is a scientific watershed. Dantzig developed "linear programming" and the simplex method, used to solve complex efficiency problems for large ...

Formulate linear and integer programming problems for solving commonly encountered optimization problems. Understand how approximation algorithms compute solutions that are guaranteed to be within ...

Niv Buchbinder, Kamal Jain, Mohit Singh, Secretary Problems via Linear Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 39, No. 1 (February 2014), pp. 190-206 ...

The cutting-stock problem is the problem of filling an order at minimum cost for specified numbers of lengths of material to be cut from given stock lengths of given cost. When expressed as an integer ...

Linear Programming: Basics, Simplex Algorithm, and Duality. Applications of Linear Programming: regression, classification and other engineering applications. Integer Linear Programming: Basics, ...

The specific equations are based on the details of the original problem. But while these details may differ, the basic makeup of ILP problems remains the same, giving researchers a single way to ...

Marshall, Paul W. "Linear Programming: A Technique for Analyzing Resource Allocation Problems." Harvard Business School Background Note 171-322, January 1971. (Revised November 1975 ...