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 ...

Successive Linear Programming (SLP) has been used extensively in the refining and petrochemical industries for over 20 years. This paper concentrates on some recent work at Exxon to unify the ...