Keith Butterworth, Practical Application of Linear/Integer Programming in Agriculture, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Feb., 1985), pp. 99-107 ...

Formulate linear and integer programming problems for solving commonly encountered optimization problems. Understand how approximation algorithms compute solutions that are guaranteed to be within ...

Interest in the open source R language keeps rising, making it the candidate for TIOBE's programming language of the year.