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

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 ...

Michael H. Veatch, Approximate Linear Programming for Average Cost MDPs, Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 38, No. 3 (August 2013), pp. 535-544 ...

Column generation is a well-known and widely practiced technique for solving linear programs with too many variables or constraints to include in the initial formulation explicitly. Instead, the ...