Decision-making patent to solve unsolvable problems

UT Arlington industrial engineers have patented an innovative method that can obtain optimal decisions for a broad class of real-world problems not previously solvable. Bill Corley and Jay Rosenberger, professor and associate professor in the Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Department, were recently issued a patent entitled “System, Method and Apparatus for Allocating Resources by Constraint Selection.” Linear programming is a mathematical description of a vast number of decision problems occurring throughout the business and scientific worlds. Solving these problems allows an