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

Niv Buchbinder, Kamal Jain, Mohit Singh, Secretary Problems via Linear Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 39, No. 1 (February 2014), pp. 190-206 ...

The cutting-stock problem is the problem of filling an order at minimum cost for specified numbers of lengths of material to be cut from given stock lengths of given cost. When expressed as an integer ...