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A Mathematician Who Solved Major Problems

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.
Business Wire

Research and Markets: Deterministic Operations Research: Models and Methods in Linear Optimization Is an Excellent Book for Operations Research of Linear Optimization Courses

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/799091/deterministic_oper) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons ...
JSTOR Daily

A Generalization of the Transportation Method of Linear Programming

The transportation method of linear programming is extended to a more general class of problem, for which the "stepping-stone method" of Charnes and Cooper fails. The method is applicable to various ...
JSTOR Daily

Solving l₁ Regularization Problems With Piecewise Linear Losses

This article is concerned with the computational aspect of l₁ regularization problems with a certain class of piecewise linear loss functions. The problem of computing the l₁ regularization path for a ...