We developed spreadsheet linear-programming models for planning shipments of finished goods between vendors, manufacturing plants, warehouses, and customers to minimize overall cost subject to maximum ...

Diet models based on goal programming (GP) are valuable tools in designing diets that comply with nutritional, palatability and cost constraints. Results derived from GP models are usually very ...

In particular, if the linear regression relation contains p parameters, minimizing the sum of the absolute value of the "vertical" deviations from the regression line is shown to reduce to a p ...