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 ...

Three examples of the applications of linear programming are given, drawn from the manufacture of plywood, the distribution of grain, and industrial fermentation. In each of these widely different ...

Admission decisions for loss systems accessed by multiple customer classes are a classical queueing control problem with a wide variety of applications. When a server is available, the decision is ...

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 ...