Designing telephone networks, routing airplanes and scheduling petroleum- refinery production are just a few problems that have been solved by a mathematical technique called linear programming.

Marshall, Paul W. "Linear Programming: A Technique for Analyzing Resource Allocation Problems." Harvard Business School Background Note 171-322, January 1971. (Revised November 1975 ...

This project aims at popularizing the usage of numerical methods, and in particular, linear programming techniques, for solving various types of information- and incentive-constrained problems in ...

Our main contribution is a new linear programming technique that we introduce as a tool for obtaining and analyzing algorithms for the secretary problem and its variants.

Robert Kee, Rick Turpin, Linear Programming As A Decision Aid For Downsizing, Journal of Managerial Issues, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer 1994), pp. 241-254 ...