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

School children, according to a forecast for the various census districts of the city, are assigned to school facilities, existing and planned, by means of linear programming. The resulting solution ...

This paper describes the installation of a planning system in a food factory, based on the use of linear programming. Owing to the seasonal nature of many of the parameters, it is essential to use a ...