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

Robert Kee, Rick Turpin, Linear Programming As A Decision Aid For Downsizing, Journal of Managerial Issues, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer 1994), pp. 241-254 ...

To employ linear programming in production-planning problems in the chemical industry it is often necessary to make a linear model of plant which seems highly non-linear. An approach with some ...