SAS/OR 15.1 User's Guide: Mathematical Programming Examples Credits Introduction Food Manufacture 1: When to Buy and How to Blend Food Manufacture 2: Limiting the Number of Ingredients and Adding Extra Conditions Factory Planning 1: What to Make, On What Machines, and When Factory Planning 2: When Should Machines Be Down for Maintenance Manpower Planning: How to Recruit, Retrain, Make Redundant, or Overman Refinery Optimization: How to Run an Oil Refinery Mining: Which Pits to Work and When to Close Them Down Farm Planning: How Much to Grow and Rear Economic Planning: How Should an Economy Grow Decentralization: How to Disperse Offices from the Capital Curve Fitting: Fitting a Curve to a Set of Data Points Logical Design: Constructing an Electronic System with a Minimum Number of Components Market Sharing: Assigning Retailers to Company Divisions Opencast Mining: How Much to Excavate Tariff Rates (Power Generation): How to Determine Tariff Rates for the Sale of Electricity Hydro Power: How to Generate and Combine Hydro and Thermal Electricity Generation Three-Dimensional Noughts and Crosses: A Combinatorial Problem Optimizing a Constraint: Reconstructing an Integer Programming Constraint More Simply Distribution 1: Which Factories and Depots to Supply Which Customers Depot Location (Distribution 2): Where Should New Depots Be Built Agricultural Pricing: What Prices to Charge for Dairy Products Efficiency Analysis: How to Use Data Envelopment Analysis to Compare Efficiencies of Garages Milk Collection: How to Route and Assign Milk Collection Lorries to Farms Yield Management: What Quantities of Airline Tickets to Sell at What Prices and What Times Car Rental 1 Car Rental 2 Lost Baggage Distribution Protein Folding Protein Comparison References