Linear Programming(LP) for dummies 💻

Iqram Ali
2 min readSep 27, 2020

Optimization technique in Management science and Operation research

Linear programming (LP) is a powerful tool in modelling many applications. LP has attracted most of its attention in optimization during the last six decades for two main reasons: Applicability and Solvability.

Basic components of LP

  1. Decision variable: describe our choices that are under our control
  2. Objective functions: describes a criterion that we wish to minimize
  3. Constraints: describe the…

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Iqram Ali

Developer influencer, 15+ years in software development currently in engineering leadership role.