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.

Perold, André. "Exploiting Degeneracy in the Simplex Method." In Large Scale Linear Programming, edited by G. B. Dantzig, M. A. H. Dempster, and Markku Kallio ...

Constrained network models describe a wide variety of real-world applications ranging from production, inventory, and distribution problems to financial applications. These problems can be solved with ...