Concave objective functions which are both piecewise linear and separable are often encountered in a wide variety of management science problems. Provided the constraints are linear, problems of this ...

The Simplex Method for solving the Linear Programming (LP) Problem, due to George Dantzig, has been an extremely efficient computational tool for almost four decades. The method has been the subject ...

George B. Dantzig, the mathematician who invented the field of linear programming, which revolutionized the way government and private enterprise planned, scheduled and generally conducted their ...