Petitioner: Employer. The Case. On May 01, 1989, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision stating that the case of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (docket no. 87-1167) should be reversed and remanded and upholding the law in question [Civil Rights Act Of 1964 (Title VII)] as constitutional. The judgment rested on the Court's authority over statutory construction.
Integer Programming (IP) is a very powerful technique for tackling problems which have a mixture of continuous and discrete activities, notably those involving scheduling. Unlike Linear Programming (LP), IP cannot simply be treated as a black box.
In an integer programming case the usual interpretation requires obvious modification , because if packages to be stored come in a minimum size of , say , one cubic foot , then the addition of a cubic inch of space to that offered by the warehouse clearly is zero , meaning that the first derivative of profit with respect to the constraining ...