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

Solving linear programming problems in a spreadsheet yields equations for maximizing business profits. As applied to business, linear programming typically involves an objective formula, such as ...

It's not necessarily about what programming language you learn or use. It's about how you approach problem solving.

Operations Research, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 1985), pp. 803-819 (17 pages) We present methods that are useful in solving some large scale hierarchical planning models involving 0-1 variables.

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Apr., 1990), pp. 291-297 (7 pages) The Hitchcock transportation problem is perhaps one of the `most solved' linear programming problems ...

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 ...

About the same time, he invented the “simplex method,” an algorithm for solving linear programming problems.

As the title suggests, I have a problem in which I need to formulate an LP model. I'm supposed to work in Excel and use the Solver Add-in feature.I've done several other problems already, but this ...