As BusinessWeek reported some ... cost way to achieve the desired objective.” About the same time, he invented the “simplex method,” an algorithm for solving linear programming problems.

Assignments will include conceptual multiple-choice questions as well as problem solving assignments that will involve programming and testing algorithms. This module introduces the basics of linear ...

Roughly, we will cover the following topics (some of them ... Integer Linear Programming: Basics, Branch-and-Bound, Cutting Plane Methods. Combinatorial Optimization: Basics of approximation ...

All references mentioned in Class 2 use linear goal programming (GP). GP uses the following steps 12 to find ‘best possible’ (that is, Pareto-optimal) diets for problems in Class 2a ...