SYMBOLIC COMPUTATIONS IN OPERATIONS-RESEARCH

While symbolic computation is enjoying success in its applications towards engineering and physical sciences, its application in operations research is still in an infancy stage. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the use of symbolic manipulations for the automatic generation of solutions necessary for theoretical and practical analyses of operations research problems. The advantage of symbolic computations is that it enables one to eliminate a good deal of the drudgery (and errors) of formal manipulations in establishing closed form solutions.