BASEBALL, OPTIMIZATION, AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB

The competition for baseball play-off spots—the fabled pennant race—is one of the most closely watched American sports traditions. While play-off race statistics, such as games back and magic number, are informative, they are overly conservative and do not account for the remaining schedule of games. Using optimization techniques, one can model schedule effects explicitly and determine precisely when ...

SOLVING REAL-WORLD LINEAR PROGRAMS: A DECADE AND MORE OF PROGRESS

This paper is an invited contribution to the 50th anniversary issue of the journal Operations Research, published by the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). It describes one person’s perspective on the development of computational tools for linear programming. The paper begins with a short personal history, followed by historical remarks covering the some 40 years of linear-programming developments that ...

THE EFFECT OF FACTORY SIZE ON ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS, OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE RAILROAD INDUSTRY

MOBILE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR DISSEMINATING REAL-TIME INFORMATION TO MOTORISTS