Baker, Thomas E.; Lasdon, Leon S. - In: Management Science 31 (1985) 3, pp. 264-274
Successive Linear Programming (SLP) has been used extensively in the refining and petrochemical industries for over 20 years. This paper concentrates on some recent work at Exxon to unify the treatment of nonlinear terms in "mostly linear" models. We first discuss the source of nonlinearities in...