Several factors imply an increase in the use of nonlinear optimization models. We face serious problems of declining productivity and increasingly scarce, expensive raw materials. Computers are ...

This paper presents a realistic chemical-process optimization problem in detail, and notes the fact of its equivalence to the general nonlinear programming problem. The eight equality constraints that ...

Marshall, Paul W. "Linear Programming: A Technique for Analyzing Resource Allocation Problems." Harvard Business School Background Note 171-322, January 1971. (Revised November 1975.) ...