(This material is not covered in Fleischer. A good reference text is Hillier and Lieberman, ``Introduction to Operations Research'', published by Holden-Day; the fourth edition of this text came out ...

Roughly, we will cover the following topics (some of them may be skipped depending on the time available). Linear Programming: Basics, Simplex Algorithm, and Duality. Applications of Linear ...

The XYZ company manufactures mobile phones. It is currently considering introducing two new lines of phone, the Standard and the Executive. Each phone needs a battery, a chip, and an injection-moulded ...