An optimization problem is one where you have to make the best decision (choose the best investments, minimize your company’s costs, find the class schedule with the fewest morning classes, or so on).

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 64, No. 10 (OCTOBER 2013), pp. 1557-1569 (13 pages) The common difficulty in solving a Binary Linear Programming (BLP) problem is uncertainties in ...