Formulate the problem as a linear programming problem, and solve it by the graphical method and the simplex method. The first step is to select decision variables. These could be the number of each ...

Eventually linear programming came to be used in everything from manufacturing to diet planning. George Bernard Dantzig was born in Portland, Ore., on Nov. 8, 1914.

In this paper, the methods for stock cutting outlined in an earlier paper in this Journal [Opns. Res. 9, 849-859 (1961)] are extended and adapted to the specific full-scale paper trim problem. The ...