Abstract
Linear programming is deemed to be the economically most valuable single device employed in operational research. The aim of this survey is to assess the usefulness of linear programming for the management of organizations. Expressing usefulness in money terms means assessing hard-to-grasp total costs and still-harder-to-grasp total benefits. Most attention is therefore paid to the first step: assessing the use of linear programming. A complete stock-taking is envisaged of all LP applications in the Netherlands, up to 1977. Applications are classified by industrial or government sectors and by type of problem. Questions have been asked about the various phases of an LP application: • - original data collection and updating (who does what?), • - modelling (characteristics of the models and the modelling activity), • - computing (hardware, and software: special options and other techniques of mathematical programming used), • - implementation of results (interface with the end users).
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