文档介绍：Elementary Linear Programming with
Applications
by Bernard Kolman, Robert E. Beck
· Textbook Hardcover - REV
· ISBN: 012417910X; ISBN-13: 9780124179103
· Format: Textbook Hardcover, 449pp
· Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
· Pub. Date: June 1995
Preface
Classical optimization techniques have been widely used in engineering
and the physical sciences for a long time. They arose from attempts to
determine the "best" or "most desirable" solution to a problem. Toward
the end of World War II, models for many problems in the management
sciences were formulated and algorithms for their solutions were devel-
oped. In particular, the new areas of linear, integer, and nonlinear pro-
gramming work flows were developed. These new areas of applied
mathematics have eeded in saving billions of dollars by enabling the
model builder to find optimal solutions to large plex applied
problems. Of course, the ess of these modem optimization techniques
for real problems is due primarily to the rapid development puter
capabilities in the past 40 years. Computational power has doubled every
12 months since 1964 (Moore's Law, Joy's Law) allowing the routine
solution today of problems plexity was overwhelming even a few
years ago.
With the increasing emphasis in mathematics on relevance to real-world
problems, some of the areas of modem optimization mentioned above
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have rapidly e part of the undergraduate curriculum for business,
engineering, computer science, and mathematics students.
This book presents a survey of the basic ideas in linear programming
and related areas and is designed for a one-semester or one-quarter course
that can be taken by business, engineering, computer science, or mathe-
matics majors. In their professional careers many of these students will
work with real applied problems; they will have to formulate models for
these problems and obtain understandable