In the era of big data, quantitative methods used by operations ... of these resources a challenge for any manager. Linear programming, a popular technique in operations research and management ...

The approach appends slack, surplus, and artificial variables to the model where needed ... The following example shows how to find the minimum cost flow through a network using linear programming.

Diet models based on goal ... Briend A . Linear and nonlinear programming to optimize the nutrient density of a population's diet: an example based on diets of preschool children in rural Malawi.