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 ...

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 ...

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

Xiaoning Xu, Feng He, Rong Chen, Qingzhi Zhang, Solving non-linear portfolio optimization problems with interval analysis, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 66, No. 6 (JUNE 2015), ...

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 ...

Wing emphasized that computational thinking is a fundamental skill for problem-solvers, not just a rote mechanical skill for computer literacy or programming.