This paper is an invited contribution to the 50th anniversary issue of the journal Operations Research, published by the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). It describes ...

Frederic H. Murphy, Venkat Panchanadam, Understanding Linear Programming Modeling through an Examination of the Early Papers on Model Formulation, Operations Research, Vol. 45, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1997 ...

George B.Eventually linear programming came to be used in everything from manufacturing to diet planning. George Bernard Dantzig was born in Portland, Ore., on Nov. 8, 1914. His father was Tobias ...

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