The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 64, No. 2 (FEBRUARY 2013), pp. 169-184 (16 pages) After the oil market in Taiwan has been opened to private enterprise, the oil refinery ...

Restaurants use linear programming for menu planning. It uses basic algebra to optimize meal production and thereby increase restaurant profits. Linear algebra reflects a direct relationship between ...

Employer-union agreements frequently specify that all workers will have an equal opportunity for overtime employment. Such an agreement is difficult to control when the work force includes a large ...

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 ...