The death of mathematician George Dantzig is a scientific watershed. Dantzig developed "linear programming" and the simplex method, used to solve complex efficiency problems for large organizations.

One of the most computationally useful ideas of the 1970s is the observation that many hard integer programming problems can be viewed as easy problems complicated by a relatively small set of side ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper, a modification of the bisection simplex method is made for more general purpose use. Organized in an alternative simpler form, ...