APPLICATIONS OF LINEAR PROGRAMMING

Abstract

The early applications of linear-programming methods fell into three major categories: military applications generated by the Air Force's Project SCOOP, interindustry economics based on the Leontief input-output model, and problems involving the relationship between zero-sum two-person games and linear programming. In the past few years these areas of application have been extended and developed, but the emphasis in linear-programming applications has shifted to the industrial area. In this section we shall describe in general terms many of these applications