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ANDERSON, DAVID R., DENNIS J. SWEENEY, and THOMAS A. WILLIAMS. An Introduction to Management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making, West, St. Paul, MN, 1985. A business management text with seven chapters on linear programming.

DOLAN, ALAN, and JOAN ALDUS, Networks and Algorithms: An Introductory Approach, Wiley, NY, 1993. A graph theoretical approach to network optimization problems, including the transportation problem.

GASS, SAUL I. Decision Making, Models, and Algorithms, Krieger, Melbourne, FL, 1991. This book demonstrates how to use linear programming and related ideas to solve a variety of industrial and governmental problems.

HARDWICK, I., Decision and Discrete Mathematics, Albion Publishing, Chichester, England, 1996. A survey of situations that can be modeled using graphs in the area of operations research. It treats the simplex method for solving linear-programming problems and the transportation problem.

Note: Simplex software can be found in Maple (keyword is “simplex”), Mathematica (keyword is “Linear Programming”), in both Lotus 1-2-3 and MSExcel via Solver, and in other software packages, especially those intended for quantitative mathematics courses focusing on business applications.