In spring 1996, Québec's Ministry of Natural Resources began using a descriptive mathematical programming model to support various negotiations in the wood-fiber markets. The model, which uses linear ...

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 ...

In recent years, several condition numbers were defined for a variety of linear programming problems based upon relative distances to ill-posedness. In this paper, we provide a unifying view of some ...

Roughly, we will cover the following topics (some of them may be skipped depending on the time available). Linear Programming: Basics, Simplex Algorithm, and Duality. Applications of Linear ...