Extremal Methods in Logistics Research: A Developmental Survey.

摘要

The problems of spatial and time-dependent analysis in logistics stimulated the creation and development of the wide classes of techniques conveniently summarized as 'extremal methods,' e.g. linear programming, semi-infinite programming, game theory, functional equations, geometric programming, chance-constrained programming, integer programming, fractional programming, interval programming, etc. A historical review of significant papers, their impact on logistical and mathematical method, and a survey of the current status of extremal methods is herein presented.