The paper presented here offers a linear programming model that combines the levelling of terrains and the associated transportation in a single linear programming problem, thus guaranteeing global ...

Transportation Science, Vol. 38, No. 3 (August 2004), pp. 343-356 (14 pages) Bounds and approximate formulae are developed for the average optimum distance of the transportation linear programming ...

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

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